Spontaneous Spatial Cognition Emerges during Egocentric Video Viewing through Non-invasive BCI
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| author | Dai, Weichen Huang, Yuxuan Zhu, Li Liu, Dongjun Zhang, Yu Zhao, Qibin Cichocki, Andrzej Babiloni, Fabio Li, Ke Qiu, Jianyu Jia, Gangyong Kong, Wanzeng Wu, Qing |
| author_facet | Dai, Weichen Huang, Yuxuan Zhu, Li Liu, Dongjun Zhang, Yu Zhao, Qibin Cichocki, Andrzej Babiloni, Fabio Li, Ke Qiu, Jianyu Jia, Gangyong Kong, Wanzeng Wu, Qing |
| contents | Humans possess a remarkable capacity for spatial cognition, allowing for self-localization even in novel or unfamiliar environments. While hippocampal neurons encoding position and orientation are well documented, the large-scale neural dynamics supporting spatial representation, particularly during naturalistic, passive experience, remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on electroencephalography (EEG) can decode spontaneous, fine-grained egocentric 6D pose, comprising three-dimensional position and orientation, during passive viewing of egocentric video. Despite EEG's limited spatial resolution and high signal noise, we find that spatially coherent visual input (i.e., continuous and structured motion) reliably evokes decodable spatial representations, aligning with participants' subjective sense of spatial engagement. Decoding performance further improves when visual input is presented at a frame rate of 100 ms per image, suggesting alignment with intrinsic neural temporal dynamics. Using gradient-based backpropagation through a neural decoding model, we identify distinct EEG channels contributing to position -- and orientation specific -- components, revealing a distributed yet complementary neural encoding scheme. These findings indicate that the brain's spatial systems operate spontaneously and continuously, even under passive conditions, challenging traditional distinctions between active and passive spatial cognition. Our results offer a non-invasive window into the automatic construction of egocentric spatial maps and advance our understanding of how the human mind transforms everyday sensory experience into structured internal representations. |
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| spellingShingle | Spontaneous Spatial Cognition Emerges during Egocentric Video Viewing through Non-invasive BCI Dai, Weichen Huang, Yuxuan Zhu, Li Liu, Dongjun Zhang, Yu Zhao, Qibin Cichocki, Andrzej Babiloni, Fabio Li, Ke Qiu, Jianyu Jia, Gangyong Kong, Wanzeng Wu, Qing Neurons and Cognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Humans possess a remarkable capacity for spatial cognition, allowing for self-localization even in novel or unfamiliar environments. While hippocampal neurons encoding position and orientation are well documented, the large-scale neural dynamics supporting spatial representation, particularly during naturalistic, passive experience, remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on electroencephalography (EEG) can decode spontaneous, fine-grained egocentric 6D pose, comprising three-dimensional position and orientation, during passive viewing of egocentric video. Despite EEG's limited spatial resolution and high signal noise, we find that spatially coherent visual input (i.e., continuous and structured motion) reliably evokes decodable spatial representations, aligning with participants' subjective sense of spatial engagement. Decoding performance further improves when visual input is presented at a frame rate of 100 ms per image, suggesting alignment with intrinsic neural temporal dynamics. Using gradient-based backpropagation through a neural decoding model, we identify distinct EEG channels contributing to position -- and orientation specific -- components, revealing a distributed yet complementary neural encoding scheme. These findings indicate that the brain's spatial systems operate spontaneously and continuously, even under passive conditions, challenging traditional distinctions between active and passive spatial cognition. Our results offer a non-invasive window into the automatic construction of egocentric spatial maps and advance our understanding of how the human mind transforms everyday sensory experience into structured internal representations. |
| title | Spontaneous Spatial Cognition Emerges during Egocentric Video Viewing through Non-invasive BCI |
| topic | Neurons and Cognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12417 |