Effects of Passenger Body Movements in a Visual Task During and After Vehicle Rotation on Post-rotatory Illusion and Motion Sickness

Overview

Journal Exp Brain Res

Specialty Neurology

Date 2024 Apr 27

PMID 38676725

Authors

Takahiro Wada

Eito Sato

Yasuaki Orita

Shogo Kida

Hidenori Horita

Takeshi Rakumatsu

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Abstract

We explored how body movements influence illusory body motion intensity and their association with motion sickness. Twelve individuals who were seated in the back of a passenger car, performed a visual task and were subjected to continuous rotations followed by driving in a straight line. The body movements during and immediately after rotation were categorized as follows: (A) upright posture; (B) leaning the body in the yaw direction towards the rotation center, returning the yaw angle to zero upon transitioning to straight line travel, and tilting in the roll condition and gradually returning to upright; and (C) tilting in roll conditions towards the centripetal direction during rotation and becoming upright upon transitioning to straight line travel. In experiment-1, after spanning half a lap, participants reported the intensity of the illusory motion experienced during straight line travel immediately after rotation. In experiment-2, after travelling up to eight laps, the participants reported the symptom level of motion sickness experienced during two straight sections per lap using the MIsery SCale (MISC). Experiment-1 revealed that condition (C) had significantly larger illusions than Conditions (A) and (B). Experiment-2 revealed that motion sickness progressed significantly more in Condition (C) than in Condition (A). A significant positive correlation was found between the observed MISC and the illusion strength. Our findings suggest that body movements during and immediately after continuous rotation have a significant impact on the illusion strength. Additionally, illusory motion could serve as an indicator of impending motion sickness.

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