Presentation 2016-07-06
Development of Oculofeedback system and Microsaccade feedback experiment
Joshua Emoto, Yutaka Hirata,
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Abstract(in English) Biofeedback can modulate brain activities by feeding back biosignals to induce preferable human condition and behavior. Eye movements are known to reflect activities of various brain areas, and among those, microsaccades (MSC) are considered to reflect covert spatial attention. Here we propose a novel biofeedback method named Oculofeedback, that is expected to modulate cognitive brain function such as covert attention by feeding back information in eye movements including MSCs. We developed a complete system to conduct Oculofeedback experiments, using Python so that it runs on PCs with high generalizability and extensibility. We performed a MSC feedback experiment, and the results suggest that MSC feedback can modulate MSC rate that is an indicator of human covert attention.
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Keyword(in English) Eye Movement / Microsaccade / Covert Attention / Biofeedback
Paper # NC2016-11
Date of Issue 2016-06-28 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / IPSJ-BIO / IBISML / IPSJ-MPS
Conference Date 2016/7/4(3days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
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Topics (in English) Machine Learning Approach to Biodata Mining, and General
Chair Shigeo Sato(Tohoku Univ.) / / Kenji Fukumizu(ISM)
Vice Chair Masafumi Hagiwara(Keio Univ.) / / Masashi Sugiyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Hisashi Kashima(Kyoto Univ.)
Secretary Masafumi Hagiwara(Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) / (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Masashi Sugiyama / Hisashi Kashima(Univ. of Tokyo) / (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Hisanao Akima(Tohoku Univ.) / Yoshihisa Shinozawa(Keio Univ.) / / Toshihiro Kamishima(AIST) / Tomoharu Iwata(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics and Genomics / Technical Committee on Infomation-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning / Special Interest Group on Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Development of Oculofeedback system and Microsaccade feedback experiment
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Eye Movement
Keyword(2) Microsaccade
Keyword(3) Covert Attention
Keyword(4) Biofeedback
1st Author's Name Joshua Emoto
1st Author's Affiliation Chubu University(Chubu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Yutaka Hirata
2nd Author's Affiliation Chubu University(Chubu Univ.)
Date 2016-07-06
Paper # NC2016-11
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) NC-120
Page pp.pp.207-210(NC),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-06-28 (NC)