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Basic Study for Human Brain Activity Based on the Spatial Cognitive Task

Authors:
Shunji Shimizu
Noboru Takahashi
Hiroyuki Nara
Hiroaki Inoue
Yukihiro Hirata

Keywords: spatial cognitive task; NIRS; determing direction during car driving

Abstract:
Recently, there is a need to develop a new assist system which acts for car driving and wheelchair for the elderly and disability person as the population grows older. In terms of developing a new system, examining human spatial recognition has important implications. And so, we pay attention to spatial perception, especially left and right ones　and differences in brain activity between right and left perception. The final goal of our research measuring brain activity is to contribute to developing of welfare robots with functions that are responsive like human. So, we have performed experiments for investigating human spatial perception by measuring brain blood flow when subjects perform driving tasks. In previous experiment, we measured brain activity when T-junctions were shown to subjects using driving movies. In this time, we performed experiment in which brain activities were measured during actual car driving. We are reporting on these analysis result and comparison result between virtual one and actual one.

Pages: 148 to 151

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-155-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011