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标题：Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases
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作者：Palmisano, Stephen ; Allison, Robert S. ; Schira, Mark M. 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
页码：193-207
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00193
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：This paper discusses four major challenges facing modern vection research. Challenge 1 (Defining Vection) outlines the different ways that vection has been defined in the literature and discusses their theoretical and experimental ramifications. The term vection is most often used to refer to visual illusions of self-motion induced in stationary observers (by moving, or simulating the motion of, the surrounding environment). However, vection is increasingly being used to also refer to non-visual illusions of self-motion, visually-mediated self-motion perceptions, and even general subjective experiences (i.e. “feelings”) of self-motion. The common thread in all of these definitions is the conscious subjective experience of self-motion. Thus, Challenge 2 (Significance of Vection) tackles the crucial issue of whether such conscious experiences actually serve functional roles during self-motion (e.g., in terms of controlling or guiding the self-motion). After more than 100 years of vection research there has been surprisingly little investigation into its functional significance. Challenge 3 (Vection Measures) discusses the difficulties with existing subjective self-report measures of vection (particularly in the context of contemporary research), and proposes several more objective measures of vection based on recent empirical findings. Finally, Challenge 4 (Neural Basis) reviews the recent neuroimaging literature examining the neural basis of vection and discusses the hurdles still facing these investigations.
关键词：Vection; self; motion perception; Optic Flow; egomotion; Conscious Experiences; functional significance; NEURAL BASIS