ArticleJournal of neurology2019
Unilateral vestibular deafferentation impairs embodied spatial cognition.
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- Evidence for cognitive impairment in patients with vestibular disorders.Journal of neurology · 2022Pooled it
- How the brain memorizes the world from others' perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Gait impairments in patients with bilateral vestibulopathy and chronic unilateral vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Chronic symptoms in patients with unilateral vestibular hypofunction: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Interpreting the meaning of changes in hippocampal volume associated with vestibular loss.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Article
- Cognitive and balance functions of astronauts after spaceflight are comparable to those of individuals with bilateral vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Vestibular cognition assessment system: Tablet-based computerized visuospatial abilities test battery.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Navigation strategies in patients with vestibular loss tested in a virtual reality T-maze.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Spatial perspective-taking: insights from sensory impairments.Experimental brain research · 2022Review
- Hearing loss versus vestibular loss as contributors to cognitive dysfunction.Journal of neurology · 2022Review
- The vestibular system modulates the contributions of head and torso to egocentric spatial judgements.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- The Differential Effects of Acute Right- vs. Left-Sided Vestibular Deafferentation on Spatial Cognition in Unilateral Labyrinthectomized Mice.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation Improves Spatial Cognition After Unilateral Labyrinthectomy in Mice.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- The Cognitive-Vestibular Compensation Hypothesis: How Cognitive Impairments Might Be the Cost of Coping With Compensation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Representation of Body Orientation in Vestibular-Defective Patients Before and After Unilateral Vestibular Loss.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Contributions of Body-Orientation to Mental Ball Dropping Task During Out-of-Body Experiences.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2021Article
- Cognitive functions in acute unilateral vestibular loss.Journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Altered Regional Cerebral Blood Perfusion in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients with Dizziness.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- 2BALANCE: a cognitive-motor dual-task protocol for individuals with vestibular dysfunction.BMJ open · 2020Article
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Abstract
A growing number of studies indicate that cognitive complaints are common in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders. A better understanding of how vestibular disorders influence cognition in these patients requires a clear delineation of the cognitive domains affected by vestibular disorders. Here, we compared the consequences of left and right vestibular neurectomy on third-person perspective taking-a visuo-spatial task requiring mainly own-body mental imagery, and on 3D objects mental rotation imagery-requiring object-based mental imagery, but no perspective taking. Patients tested 1 week after a unilateral vestibular neurectomy and a group of age- and gender-matched healthy participants played a virtual ball-tossing game from their own first-person perspective (1PP) and from the perspective of a distant avatar (third-person perspective, 3PP). Results showed larger response times in the patients with respect to their controls for the 3PP taking task, but not for the 1PP task and the 3D objects mental imagery. In addition, we found that only patients with left vestibular neurectomy presented altered 3PP taking abilities when compared to their controls. This study suggests that unilateral vestibular loss affects mainly own-body mental transformation and that only left vestibular loss seems to impair this cognitive process. Our study also brings further evidence that vestibular signals contribute to the sensorimotor bases of social cognition and strengthens the connections between the so far distinct fields of social neuroscience and human vestibular physiology.
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