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21 August 2000 - Volume 11 - Issue 12 - p 2659-2662
Auditory and Vestibular Systems

Neck muscle vibration alters visually-perceived roll after unilateral vestibular loss

Betts, G A.; Barone, M; Karlberg, M; MacDougall, H; Curthoys, I S.

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Abstract

Unilateral sternocleidomastoid muscle vibration was applied to 21 normal and six unilateral vestibular deafferented (uVD) human subjects at head erect and during 30° left and right whole body roll-tilt. In normal subjects, neck vibration had no effect upon the settings of a visual bar to subjective visual horizontal (SVH) in any roll-tilt condition. In uVD subjects settings to SVH were significantly altered by neck vibration, with ipsilesional neck vibration increasing the SVH bias at head erect. Further, during contralesional roll-tilt, ipsilesional neck vibration in uVD subjects significantly increased the E-effect. These results suggest that compensation after vestibular loss allows cervical signals to influence visual perception of roll-tilt.

© 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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