ArticleScientific reports2021
No evidence for stochastic resonance effects on standing balance when applying noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation in young healthy adults.
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- Standardizing Stimulus Parameters for Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation.Journal of audiology & otology · 2026Review
- Optimizing noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) for postural control: methodological considerations when individualizing the signal for people with bilateral vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- A review of parameter settings for galvanic vestibular stimulation in clinical applications.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation induces stochastic resonance in vestibular perceptual thresholds assessed efficiently using confidence reports.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- No evidence for effects of low-intensity vestibular noise stimulation on mild-to-moderate gait impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Low-intensity vestibular noise stimulation improves postural symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Mechanisms underlying treatment effects of vestibular noise stimulation on postural instability in patients with bilateral vestibulopathy.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- A mobile electrical stimulator for therapeutic modulation of the vestibular system - design, safety, and functionality.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Repetitive Low-Intensity Vestibular Noise Stimulation Partly Reverses Behavioral and Brain Activity Changes following Bilateral Vestibular Loss in Rats.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Subtractive adaptation is a more effective and general mechanism in binocular rivalry than divisive adaptation.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Scoping out noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation: a review of the parameters used to improve postural control.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Effects of Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on the Muscle Activity and Joint Movements in Different Standing Postures Conditions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) at imperceptible levels has been shown to reduce body sway. This reduction was commonly attributed to the mechanism of stochastic resonance (SR). However, it has never been explicitly tested whether nGVS-induced effects on body sway consistently follow a SR-like bell-shaped performance curve with maximal reductions in a particular range of noise intensities. To test this, body sway in 21 young healthy participants was measured during varying nGVS amplitudes while standing with eyes closed in 3 conditions (quiet stance, sway referencing, sinusoidal platform tilts). Presence of SR-like response dynamics in each trial was assessed (1) by a goodness-of-fit analysis using an established SR-curve model and (2) by ratings from 3 human experts. In accordance to theory, we found reductions of body sway at one nGVS amplitude in most trials (75-95%). However, only few trials exhibited SR-like bell-shaped performance curves with increasing noise amplitudes (10-33%). Instead, body sway measures rather fluctuated randomly across nGVS amplitudes. This implies that, at least in young healthy adults, nGVS effects on body sway are incompatible with SR. Thus, previously reported reductions of body sway at particular nGVS intensities more likely result from inherent variations of the performance metric or by other yet unknown mechanisms.
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