NDLI: Adaptation of vestibular signals for self-motion perception

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Author	George, Rebecca J. St Day, Brian L. Fitzpatrick, Richard C.
Abstract	A fundamental concern of the brain is to establish the spatial relationship between self and the world to allow purposeful action. Response adaptation to unvarying sensory stimuli is a common feature of neural processing, both peripherally and centrally. For the semicircular canals, peripheral adaptation of the canal-cupula system to constant angular-velocity stimuli dominates the picture and masks central adaptation. Here we ask whether galvanic vestibular stimulation circumvents peripheral adaptation and, if so, does it reveal central adaptive processes. Transmastoidal bipolar galvanic stimulation and platform rotation (20 deg s−1) were applied separately and held constant for 2 min while perceived rotation was measured by verbal report. During real rotation, the perception of turn decayed from the onset of constant velocity with a mean time constant of 15.8 s. During galvanic-evoked virtual rotation, the perception of rotation initially rose but then declined towards zero over a period of ∼100 s. For both stimuli, oppositely directed perceptions of similar amplitude were reported when stimulation ceased indicating signal adaptation at some level. From these data the time constants of three independent processes were estimated: (i) the peripheral canal-cupula adaptation with time constant 7.3 s, (ii) the central ‘velocity-storage’ process that extends the afferent signal with time constant 7.7 s, and (iii) a long-term adaptation with time constant 75.9 s. The first two agree with previous data based on constant-velocity stimuli. The third component decayed with the profile of a real constant angular acceleration stimulus, showing that the galvanic stimulus signal bypasses the peripheral transformation so that the brainstem sees the galvanic signal as angular acceleration. An adaptive process involving both peripheral and central processes is indicated. Signals evoked by most natural movements will decay peripherally before adaptation can exert an appreciable effect, making a specific vestibular behavioural role unlikely. This adaptation appears to be a general property of the internal coding of self-motion that receives information from multiple sensory sources and filters out the unvarying components regardless of their origin. In this instance of a pure vestibular sensation, it defines the afferent signal that represents the stationary or zero-rotation state.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2010.197053
Ending Page	853
Page Count	11
Starting Page	843
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00223751
e-ISSN	14697793
Journal	The Journal of Physiology
Issue Number	Pt 4
Volume Number	589
Language	English
Publisher	Blackwell Science Inc
Publisher Date	2011-02-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Blackwell Science Inc
Subject Keyword	Physiology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physiology Sports Science

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