TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Wearing a head-mounted eye tracker may reduce body sway
JO  - Neuroscience letters
A1  - Gotardi, Gisele C.
A1  - Rodrigues, Sérgio T.
A1  - Barbieri, Fabio A.
A1  - Brito, Matheus B.
A1  - Bonfim, José V. A.
A1  - Polastri, Paula F.
SP  - 134799
EP  - 134799
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This study investigated the effects of wearing a head-mounted eye tracker on upright balance during different visual tasks. Twenty five young adults stood upright on a force plate while performing the visual tasks of fixation, horizontal saccades, and eyes closed, during eighteen trials wearing or not a head-mounted eye tracker. While wearing the eye tracker, participants showed a reduction in mean sway amplitude and velocity of the CoP in the AP and ML directions and more regular CoP fluctuations, in the ML axis in all conditions. Higher mean sway amplitude and velocity of CoP were observed during eyes closed than fixation and saccades. Moreover, horizontal saccades reduced mean sway velocity of CoP compared to fixation. Therefore, wearing the eye tracker minimized the body sway of young adults; however, visual task-related effects on postural stability remained unchanged.<br><br>Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier B.V.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0304-3940
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2020.134799
ID  - ref1
ER  -