时间：6月27日（周四）上午10:00

地点：一教三楼计算机学院会议室

报告人：田中聪久东京农工大学

Title: Action Observation of Own Hand Movement Enhances Event-Related Desynchronization

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Abstract:A stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is critically reduced or blocked, potentially resulting in motor paralysis. One of the most promising and effective neurorehabilitation methods for strokes is a closed-loop brain-computer interface (BCI) based on the motor imagery (MI). For the design of MI-based BCI, action observation (AO) during MI facilitates the detection of a user's motor intention. In this paper, we investigated whether or not the AO's targeted objects (the hand of a participant or another person) affects brain activity during MI. To investigate the differences in brain activity induced by the targeted objection, we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) data of 15 healthy right-handed males during three different conditions: (1) MI and AO of a participant's hand (MI+ownAO), (2) MI and AO of a non-participant's hand (MI+otherAO), and (3) MI only. Results showed that the event-related desynchronization (ERD) responses in the alpha frequency band (8-13 Hz) during MI+ownAO over the sensorimotor area (at the C3 and C4 channel locations) were stronger than those during the other two conditions. The results showed that the difference between participants' and non-participants' hands affected ERD responses during MI+ownAO and MI+otherAO.

Presenter: Toshihisa Tanaka (Ph.D, Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

Biography:

         Toshihisa Tanaka received the B.E., the M.E., and the Ph.D. degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997, 2000, and 2002, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was a JSPS Research Fellow. From October 2002 to March 2004, he was a Research Scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. In April 2004, he joined Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where he is currently a Professor. In 2005, he was a Royal Society visiting fellow at the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College London, U.K. From June 2011 to October 2011, he was a visiting faculty member in Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

         His research interests include a broad area of signal processing and machine learning including brain and biomedical signal processing, brain-machine interfaces and adaptive systems. He is a co-editor of Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion (with Mandic, Springer), 2008 and a leading co-editor of Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Brain-Machine Interfaces (with Arvaneh, IET, UK), 2018.

He served as an associate editor and a guest editor of special issues in journals including Neurocomputing and IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals and Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi). Currently he serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Applied Sciences (MDPI), and Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis (World Scientific). Furthermore, he serves as a member-at-large, board of governors (BoG) of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He was a chair of the Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing, APSIPA. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEICE, APSIPA, and Society for Neuroscience.