Where's your head at? An illusion of head orientation which reveals dissociation of proprioceptive signals for balance versus perception
Where's your head at? An illusion of head orientation which reveals dissociation of proprioceptive signals for balance versus perception
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你的头在哪里?
DOI:
10.1113/jp273874
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
Reynolds R
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Reynolds R
The vestibular apparatus provides signals of head motion that can be used to stabilise balance. Since it is locked within the skull, the information it provides must first be transformed from head to body-centred coordinates. This requires an accurate sense of head orientation. For example, if head motion is detected towards the left ear when standing face-forwards, the appropriate response would be a compensatory body sway in a rightward direction. But if the head is turned towards our right shoulder, the same pattern of vestibular feedback would now indicate forward body sway, with the appropriate response being directed backward. Any errors in the sensation of head orientation may cause the compensatory sway response to be oriented in the wrong direction, leading to postural instability. This head-to-feet coordinate transformation process has previously been demonstrated using electrical vestibular stimulation (EVS). EVS applies small currents to the mastoid processes that modulate activity in the vestibular nerve. This leads to a false sensation of head (and body) motion towards the cathode electrode that, in turn, leads to a compensatory sway response towards the anode (Fitzpatrick & Day, 2004). As the head is turned left or right, the direction of the evoked sway response rotates by an equal amount, staying fixed within head coordinates, always directed along an axis through the ears. In this issue of The Journal of Physiology, Dalton et al.(2017) describe an intriguing scenario in which this transformation process goes awry.
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1989
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Neirofiziologiia = Neurophysiology
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作者:
V. Gurfinkel;K. Popov;B. Smetanin;V. I. Shlykov
通讯作者:
V. I. Shlykov
影响因子:
5.5
作者:
Dalton, Brian H.;Rasman, Brandon G.;Blouin, Jean-Sebastien
通讯作者:
Blouin, Jean-Sebastien
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发表时间:
2005
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Neurophysiology (New York)
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作者:
V. Gurfinkel;K. Popov;B. Smetanin;V. Y. Shlykov
通讯作者:
V. Y. Shlykov