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Issue title: Seventh Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, June 7–9, 2006
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Sanderson, Jeffreya | Oman, Charles M.b | Harris, Laurence R.a; *
Affiliations: [a] Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3, Canada | [b] Man-Vehicle Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Laurence R. Harris, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3, Canada. Tel.: +1 416 736 2100 66108; Fax: +1 416 736 5814; E-mail: harris@yorku.ca
Abstract: We demonstrate a new method for measuring the time constant of head-movement-contingent oscillopsia (HMCO) produced by vestibular Coriolis stimulation. Subjects briskly rotated their heads around pitch or roll axes whilst seated on a platform rotating at constant velocity. This induced a cross-coupled vestibular Coriolis illusion. Simultaneous with the head movement, a visual display consisting of either a moving field of white dots on a black background or superimposed on a subject-stationary horizon, or a complete virtual room with conventional furnishings appeared. The scene's motion was driven by a simplified computer model of the Coriolis illusion. Subjects either nulled (if visual motion was against the illusory body rotation) or matched (if motion was in the same direction as the illusory motion) the sensation with the exponentially slowing scene motion, by indicating whether its decline was too fast or too slow. The model time constant was approximated using a staircase technique. Time constants comparable to that of the Coriolis vestibular ocular reflex were obtained. Time constants could be significantly reduced by adding subject-stationary visual elements. This technique for measuring oscillopsia might be used to quantify adaptation to artificial gravity environments. In principle more complex models can be used, and applied to other types of oscillopsia such as are experienced by BPPV patients or by astronauts returning to Earth.
Keywords: Oscillopsia, head-movement-contingent oscillopsia, vestibular Coriolis effect, suppression, perceptual stability
DOI: 10.3233/VES-2007-175-609
Journal: Journal of Vestibular Research, vol. 17, no. 5-6, pp. 289-299, 2007
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