ArticleCommunications engineering2025
Validating sensory conflict theory and mitigating motion sickness in humans with galvanic vestibular stimulation.
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- Polarity-Dependent Effects of Sinusoidal Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on Cardiovascular Responses During Cognitive Load.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Motion sensations, postural sway, and side effects for copolar galvanic vestibular stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Case Report: Relief of long-standing severe motion sickness following stellate ganglion block.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Virtual reality locomotion methods differentially affect spatial orientation and cybersickness during maze navigation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact of sickness induced by centrifugation on tilt perception.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Per sensory conflict theory, vestibular sensory information has been proposed to drive motion sickness given deviations from central expectations. However, the consistency of motion sickness with quantitative predictions of manipulated vestibular sensory conflict remains untested. Here, we evaluated motion sickness symptoms within 10 participants exposed to galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) designed to manipulate vestibular sensory conflict during passive physical translations. Using a computational methodology, equal and opposite GVS waveforms were designed to reduce (Beneficial) or increase (Detrimental) motion sickness while controlling all other sources of sensory information and central confounds. Beneficial GVS produced a 26% motion sickness reduction, and Detrimental GVS produced a 56% increase (p = 0.0055), demonstrating the causal role of vestibular information in human motion sickness. Validating our predictions, this finding supports the theory that vestibular sensory conflict mediates motion sickness and facilitates new methods and countermeasures for mitigating motion sickness during transportation and in virtual environments.
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