ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
The Effect of Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on Learning of Functional Mobility and Manual Control Nulling Sensorimotor Tasks.
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- 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
- Exploring the Potentials of Wearable Technologies in Managing Vestibular Hypofunction.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Optimal Design of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation for Patients with Vestibulopathy and Cerebellar Disorders.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Training augmentation using additive sensory noise in a lunar rover navigation task.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Recent developments in the understanding of the interactions between the vestibular system, memory, the hippocampus, and the striatum.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Thresholds for vestibular and cutaneous perception and oculomotor response induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) is a non-invasive method of electrically stimulating the vestibular system. We investigated whether the application of GVS can alter the learning of new functional mobility and manual control tasks and whether learning can be retained following GVS application. In a between-subjects experiment design, 36 healthy subjects performed repeated trials, capturing the learning of either (a) a functional mobility task, navigating an obstacle course on a compliant surface with degraded visual cues or (b) a manual control task, using a joystick to null self-roll tilt against a pseudo-random disturbance while seated in the dark. In the "learning" phase of trials, bilateral, bipolar GVS was applied continuously. The GVS waveform also differed between subjects in each task group: (1) white noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) at 0.3 mA (2) high-level random GVS at 0.7 mA (selected from pilot testing as destabilizing, but not painful), or (3) with the absence of stimulation (i.e., sham). Following the "learning" trials, all subjects were blindly transitioned to sham GVS, upon which they immediately completed another series of trials to assess any aftereffects. In the functional mobility task, we found nGVS significantly improved task learning (
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