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Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception
In our contemporary societies, environmental issues are more and more important. An increasing number of studies explore the biological processes involved in environment perception and in particular try to highlight the mechanisms underlying the perception of environmental scenes by our brain. The m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884676 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070869 |
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author | Akounach, Mbarka Lelard, Thierry Beaumont, Anaïs Granon, Sylvie Mouras, Harold |
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description | In our contemporary societies, environmental issues are more and more important. An increasing number of studies explore the biological processes involved in environment perception and in particular try to highlight the mechanisms underlying the perception of environmental scenes by our brain. The main objective of the present study was to establish whether the visualization of clean and polluted environmental scenes would lead to differential postural reactions. Our hypothesis was based on a differential postural modulation that could be recorded when the subject is confronted with images representing a “polluted” environment, differential modulation which has been reported in previous studies in response to painful-scenes compared to non-painful scenes visualization.Thirty-one subjects participated in this study. Physiological measurements [heart rate variability (HRV) and electrodermal activity] and postural responses (Center Of Pression—COP—displacements) were recorded in response to perception of polluted or clean environmental scenes. We show, for the first time, that images representing polluted scenes evoke a weaker approach movement than images representing clean scenes. The displacement of the COP in the anteroposterior axis reflects an avoidance when subjects visualize “polluted” scenes. Our results demonstrate a clear distinction between “clean” and “polluted” environments according to the postural change they induce, correlated with the ratings of pleasure and approach evoked by images. |
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spelling | pubmed-93131232022-07-26 Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception Akounach, Mbarka Lelard, Thierry Beaumont, Anaïs Granon, Sylvie Mouras, Harold Brain Sci Article In our contemporary societies, environmental issues are more and more important. An increasing number of studies explore the biological processes involved in environment perception and in particular try to highlight the mechanisms underlying the perception of environmental scenes by our brain. The main objective of the present study was to establish whether the visualization of clean and polluted environmental scenes would lead to differential postural reactions. Our hypothesis was based on a differential postural modulation that could be recorded when the subject is confronted with images representing a “polluted” environment, differential modulation which has been reported in previous studies in response to painful-scenes compared to non-painful scenes visualization.Thirty-one subjects participated in this study. Physiological measurements [heart rate variability (HRV) and electrodermal activity] and postural responses (Center Of Pression—COP—displacements) were recorded in response to perception of polluted or clean environmental scenes. We show, for the first time, that images representing polluted scenes evoke a weaker approach movement than images representing clean scenes. The displacement of the COP in the anteroposterior axis reflects an avoidance when subjects visualize “polluted” scenes. Our results demonstrate a clear distinction between “clean” and “polluted” environments according to the postural change they induce, correlated with the ratings of pleasure and approach evoked by images. MDPI 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9313123/ /pubmed/35884676 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070869 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Akounach, Mbarka Lelard, Thierry Beaumont, Anaïs Granon, Sylvie Mouras, Harold Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title | Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title_full | Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title_fullStr | Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title_full_unstemmed | Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title_short | Postural Correlates of Pollution Perception |
title_sort | postural correlates of pollution perception |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884676 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12070869 |
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