In Brief:
The aim of this study was to determine whether bone-conduction vibration (BCV) or air-conducted sound (ACS) was best at eliciting ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) and cervical VEMPs (cVEMP). Both oVEMP and cVEMPs were measured in healthy volunteers and in subjects with chronic otitis media or Meniere's disease. Our results showed that, using BCV mode, Fz and the inion may be the optimal sites for eliciting oVEMPs and cVEMPs, respectively. Thus, BCV mode can be substituted for ACS mode to elicit oVEMPs and cVEMPs in the future, especially in “mass detection”. In contrast, ACS mode provided had the essential clinical merit of site selectivity.
