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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Clément, Gillesa; | Wood, Scott J.b | Reschke, Millard F.c | Berthoz, Alaina | Igarashi, Makotod
Affiliations: [a] Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action, CNRS/Collège de France, Paris, France | [b] Neurosciences Laboratory, Krug Life Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA | [c] Life Sciences Research Laboratories, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA | [d] University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Note: [*] Reprint address: Dr. Gilles Clément, CNRS UMR 5549, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paul Sabatier, 133 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cédex, France. Tel.: +33 5 6217 3779; Fax: +33 5 6217 2809; E-mail: gclement@cerco.ups-tlse.fr
Abstract: Both yaw and pitch visual-vestibular interactions at two separate frequencies of chair rotation (0.2 and 0.8 Hz) in combination with a single velocity of optokinetic stimulus (36∘/s) were used to investigate the effects of sustained weightlessness on neural strategies adopted by astronaut subjects to cope with the stimulus rearrangement of spaceflight. Pitch and yaw oscillation in darkness at 0.2 and 0.8 Hz without optokinetic stimulation, and constant velocity linear optokinetic stimulation at 18, 36, and 54∘/s presented relative to the head with the subject stationary, were used as controls for the visual-vestibular interactions. The results following 8 days of space flight showed no significant changes in: (1) either the horizontal and vertical vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain, phase, or bias; (2) the yaw visual-vestibular response (VVR); or (3) the horizontal or vertical optokinetic (OKN) slow phase velocity (SPV). However, significant changes were observed: (1) when during pitch VVR at 0.2 Hz late inflight, the contribution of the optokinetic input to the combined oculomotor response was smaller than during the stationary OKN SPV measurements, followed by an increased contribution during the immediate postflight testing; and (2) when during pitch VVR at 0.8 Hz, the component of the combined oculomotor response due to the underlying vertical VOR was more efficiently suppressed early inflight and less suppressed immediately postflight compared with preflight observations. The larger OKN response during pitch VVR at 0.2 Hz and the better suppression of VOR during pitch VVR at 0.8 Hz postflight are presumably due to the increased role of vision early inflight and immediately after spaceflight, as previously observed in various studies. These results suggest that the subjects adopted a neural strategy to structure their spatial orientation in weightlessness by reweighting visual, otolith, and perhaps tactile/somatic signals.
Keywords: vestibulo-ocular reflex, optokinetic nystagmus, visual-vestibular interaction, weightlessness
DOI: 10.3233/VES-1999-9308
Journal: Journal of Vestibular Research, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 207-220, 1999
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