The vestibular system: multimodal integration and encoding of self-motion for motor control

By Kathleen E. Cullen. Trends in Neurosciences, 2012

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Understanding how sensory pathways transmit information under natural conditions remains a major goal in neuroscience. The vestibular system plays a vital role in everyday life, contributing to a wide range of functions from reflexes to the highest levels of voluntary behavior. Recent experiments establishing that vestibular (self-motion) processing is inherently multimodal also provide insight into a set of interrelated questions: What neural code is used to represent sensory information in vestibular pathways? How does the organism’s interaction with the environment shape encoding? How is self-motion information processing adjusted to meet the needs of specific tasks? This review highlights progress that has recently been made towards understanding how the brain encodes and processes self-motion to ensure accurate motor control.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Social Psychology

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• A Brief Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) Assessment to Evaluate Concussions (2014, background): “The vestibulo-ocular system maintains visual stability during head movements, whereas the vestibulospinal system is responsible for postural control.(12) Because of the organization and neurophysiology of the vestibular system, impairments in the vestibulo-ocular system commonly manifest as symptoms”