ReviewThe Journal of physiology2011
The sense of self-motion, orientation and balance explored by vestibular stimulation.
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- Mastoid Vibration Affects Dynamic Postural Control During Gait.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2016Trial
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- Imagine going left versus imagine going right: whole-body motion on the lateral axis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Exploring GVS as a display modality: signal amplitude and polarity, in various environments, impacts on posture, and with dual-tasking.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Sensory reweighting and self-motion perception for postural control under single-sensory and multisensory perturbations in older Tai Chi practitioners.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- The minimal clinically important difference for gait speed in significant unilateral vestibular hypofunction after vestibular rehabilitation.Journal of otology · 2023Article
- Beta-band power is an index of multisensory weighting during self-motion perception.Neuroimage. Reports · 2022Article
- "CityQuest," A Custom-Designed Serious Game, Enhances Spatial Memory Performance in Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effect of galvanic vestibular stimulation applied at the onset of stance on muscular activity and gait cycle duration in healthy individuals.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
- Different Types of Mastoid Process Vibrations Affect Dynamic Margin of Stability Differently.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Balance Adaptation While Standing on a Compliant Base Depends on the Current Sensory Condition in Healthy Young Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Stabilization demands of walking modulate the vestibular contributions to gait.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The role of delta and theta oscillations during ego-motion in healthy adult volunteers.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- The effect of the use of smartphone while walking on the electromyography activity of the lower extremity in young students.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2021Article
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Abstract
The sense of orientation during locomotion is derived from our spatial relationship with the external environment, sensed predominantly by sight and sound, and from internal signals of motion, generated by the vestibular sense and the pattern of efferent and afferent signals to the muscles and joints. The sensory channels operate in different reference frames and have different time-dependent adaptive properties and yet the inputs are combined by the central nervous system to create an internal representation of self-motion. In normal circumstances vestibular, visual and proprioceptive cues provide congruent information on locomotor trajectory; however, in cases of sensory discord there must be a recalibration of sensory signals to provide a unitary representation. We develop a means of studying these fusion processes by perturbing each channel in isolation about a consistent behavioural axis. This review focuses on creating the vestibular perturbation of the orientation sense by transmastoidal galvanic stimulation, a technique generally used to evoke balance reflexes. Vector summation across the population of semicircular canal afferents creates a net signal that is interpreted by the brain as a vector of angular acceleration in a craniocentric reference frame. The signal feeds perceptual processes of orientation after transformation that resolves the 3-D signal onto the terrestrial or behavioural plane. Changing head posture changes the interpretation of the galvanic vestibular signal for balance and orientation responses. With appropriate head alignments during locomotion, the galvanic stimulus can be used to either steer trajectory over the terrestrial plane or perturb balance.
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