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fMOVE poses technical advantages since it allows
high frequency data acquisition inside the fMRI
environment which is commonly incompatible to all
widely used motion tracking technologies, due to
the applied magnetic field. Our system is amenable
to further customization depending on the needs of
the experimental study, designed to be carried out
inside the scanner. Such customization can include
developing a multiple-marker tracking algorithm, so
as to increase the motion tracking accuracy, avoid
false marker detections and cover the motion of
multiple body parts or more complex behavioural
tasks.
Importantly, apart from its compatibility to the
fMRI environment, fMOVE constitutes an ultra-
low-cost motion tracking technology, that limits
expenses to the price of the used camera. At the
same time, the methodological platform it supports,
offers promising advantages for future studies of
motor behaviour (Wolpert, et.al., 2011, Wolpert and
Flanagan, 2010). It namely enables a tight
integration of psychophysical and functional
imaging studies and can thereby guide
investigations of the still unknown neural
foundation of cortical action selection and motor
learning rules.
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