Running on a treadmill at a confortable velocity is a quasi automatic motion without the need for much cognitive control, while running in a natural environment with obstacles surely requires greater attention and increased cognitive activity.
Will running, in a natural environment, increase beta and gamma frequencies observed?
There is not a lot of work done using EEG while exercising. The reason is that the physical exercise can lead to lots of artifacts in the data. You should however look at work from Dr. Charles Hillman at the University of Illinois (http://kch.illinois.edu/research/labs/neurocognitive-kinesiology/). His group has done a number of excellent studies looking at how exercise modulates EEG/ERP signals.
Thank you for your advices, I will take a look at works from Dr Hillman.
You could take a look at work like this from De Sanctis et al. - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381191400161X
and from Gwin et al http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811910011638
Also a related Frontiers Research Topic http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Towards_a_New_Cognitive_Neuros/1360
I'd be happy to make an introduction to either Dania Gutiérrez Ruiz (IEEE Mexico) or Frank Marino who is Head, Excercise Science at Charles Sturt University in Melborne?
Both of these researchers are doing exactly this kind of work and could talk to you about what you may see in the signal. I've attached an image from Dania's set-up if you are interested.
- Tiana Hayden on behalf of Chris Berka
Thanks a lot Tiana Hayden and Chris Berka for the proposition. I will contact you again through Researchgate a little later. Best regards.
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