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ReviewCurrent research in neurobiology2023

Neural substrates of perception in the vestibular thalamus during natural self-motion: A review.

Kathleen E Cullen, Maurice J Chacron

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Review in Current research in neurobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Type I hair cells of striolar and central zones in vestibular organs are essential for head stability and postural control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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2 authors.

Kathleen E CullenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Maurice J ChacronDepartment of Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.

Funding

The Physiology of Vestibular CompensationR01DC002390 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Kathleen E Cullen · 1995 to 2026
$10.7M
Neural Computations Underlying Cancellation of the Vestibular Consequences of Voluntary MovementR01DC018061 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Kathleen E Cullen · 2019 to 2026
$4.0M
Mechanism and Functional Significance of Polarity Reversal in Mechanosensory OrgansR01DC018304 · NIDCD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI CULLEN, KATHLEEN E, EATOCK, RUTH ANNE · 2020 to 2024
$3.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC002390NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC018061NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC018304
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating evidence across multiple sensory modalities suggests that the thalamus does not simply relay information from the periphery to the cortex. Here we review recent findings showing that vestibular neurons within the ventral posteriolateral area of the thalamus perform nonlinear transformations on their afferent input that determine our subjective awareness of motion. Specifically, these neurons provide a substrate for previous psychophysical observations that perceptual discrimination thresholds are much better than predictions from Weber's law. This is because neural discrimination thresholds, which are determined from both variability and sensitivity, initially increase but then saturate with increasing stimulus amplitude, thereby matching the previously observed dependency of perceptual self-motion discrimination thresholds. Moreover, neural response dynamics give rise to unambiguous and optimized encoding of natural but not artificial stimuli. Finally, vestibular thalamic neurons selectively encode passively applied motion when occurring concurrently with voluntary (i.e., active) movements. Taken together, these results show that the vestibular thalamus plays an essential role towards generating motion perception as well as shaping our vestibular sense of agency that is not simply inherited from afferent input.

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AdaptationNeural codingOptimal codingPerceptionVestibularVoluntary movement

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PMID36926598
PMCPMC10011815

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