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The vestibular system Current Biology Brian L. Day, Richard C. Fitzpatrick  Current Biology  Volume 15, Issue 15, Pages R583-R586 (August 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.053 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 The vestibular organs. Locked in the bony structure of the inner ear in close association with the auditory organ, the cochlea, the vestibular organs form two functional units. The two otolith organs sense linear acceleration and its gravitational equivalent, and the three semicircular canals sense rotational movement in space. The hair cells of the utricle and saccule form a two-dimensional array with their cilia embedded in a membrane of dense calcium crystals known as otoliths (‘ear stones’). Movement of the membrane by gravitational or inertial forces maximally activates those hair cells that are aligned with the movement. With the two organs oriented at right angles to each other, the direction of linear acceleration is spatially encoded in three dimensions and the magnitude of the acceleration is encoded by the firing rate. As the head rotates, the inertial force of the fluid in the semicircular canals deflects the cilia of hair cells aligned with the canals, modulating the firing of the afferent nerves. With the three semicircular canals aligned at right angles to each other, rotation in any direction can be resolved. Current Biology 2005 15, R583-R586DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.053) Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 The vestibular system in action. Consider standing on a bus. The otolith organs contribute to a signal of the vertical that the brain’s balance system uses to align the body with gravity (g). The signal of the direction of gravity is also used to align an internal representation of external space so that the world is perceived as upright. Our passenger perceives that she and the trees are upright, whereas the ground and bus is tilted. When the bus leaves the stop, the otolith organs no longer report just the gravitational vector (g) but the total gravito-inertial vector (I), which is now tilted because of a component (a) created by the acceleration. Her otolith signal remains correct for balance because she needs to align herself with the total vector rather than gravity. But with just the otolith signal to align the internal representation of external space, she would perceive a tilted world. We know that, somehow, the brain must solve this problem of the equivalence of acceleration and gravity because, in this situation, we perceive the world to be aligned with gravity rather than the gravito-inertial vector. Our passenger perceives that the ground and bus are level, the trees upright, the bus is accelerating and that she is tilted. The brain needs other sensory signals about rotation of the head and joints to extract the gravitational and acceleration components of the total vector. Current Biology 2005 15, R583-R586DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.053) Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 Interactions with other systems. Identical rotations of the head (A) evoke identical vestibular signals but the brain interprets that signal according to what the other senses report and the current state of the body. If, when standing, the other senses simultaneously report that the neck, trunk and pelvis turn but the feet remain stationary, the vestibular signal contributes to an overall perception of turning to the side. When sitting in a swivel chair and no related signal arrives from the other senses, the vestibular signal alone will elicit a perception that the chair turned. Small electrical currents can be delivered to stimulate the vestibular nerves (B). Electrodes of opposite polarities on each side evoke a signal equivalent to lateral rotation of the head. This ‘virtual rotation’ (there is no real movement) evokes a perception of body sway in the same direction and a corrective sway response in the opposite direction (C). An experiment using this virtual stimulus (D) shows that, with different alignments of the head relative to the feet, the direction of the reflex sway response is always at the same angle as the head. Thus, the head-referenced vestibular signal is transformed into an earth-fixed reference frame to feed automatic balance reflexes and processes that provide for our perception of body orientation. Current Biology 2005 15, R583-R586DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.053) Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions