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Visual and Vestibular Integration Express Summative Eye Movement Responses and Reveal Higher Visual Acceleration Sensitivity than Previously Described.

ABSTRACT: Purpose:Acceleration plays a great impact on the vestibular system, but is attributed little influence over vision. This study aims to explore how visual and vestibular acceleration affect roll-plane oculomotor responses, including their addiative effect. Methods:Seated in a mechanical sled, 13 healthy volunteers (7 men, 6 women; mean age 25 years) were exposed to a series of visual (VIS) optokinetic, vestibular (VES) whole-body, and combined (VIS + VES) rotations. This was carried out at two acceleration intensities. Subjects wore a video-based eye tracker, enabling analysis of torsional and skewing eye movement responses, which were used to evaluate the individual response to each trial. The tracker also contained accelerometers allowing head tracking. Results:Both ocular torsion and vertical skewing were sensitive to acceleration intensities for VES and VIS + VES. For VIS only, skewing exhibited such a response. An increased acceleration yielded a decreased torsion-skewing ratio for VIS, explained by the change in skewing, but remained unchanged for VES and VIS + VES. Torsion exhibited particularly reliable summative effect, yielding a relative contribution of 32% VIS and 75% VES during low acceleration, and 19% and 85%, respectively, during high acceleration. Conclusions:The change in the skewing response to different intensities indicates that the visual system is more sensitive to visual accelerations than previously described. Eye movements showed reliable summative effects, indicating a robust visual-vestibular integration that indicates their integrative priorities for each acceleration, with the visual system being more involved during low accelerations. Such objective quantifications could hold clinical utility when assessing sensory mismatch in vertiginous patients.

SUBMITTER: Wibble T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7405760 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Visual and Vestibular Integration Express Summative Eye Movement Responses and Reveal Higher Visual Acceleration Sensitivity than Previously Described.

Wibble Tobias T Engström Johanna J Pansell Tony T

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 20200501 5

<h4>Purpose</h4>Acceleration plays a great impact on the vestibular system, but is attributed little influence over vision. This study aims to explore how visual and vestibular acceleration affect roll-plane oculomotor responses, including their addiative effect.<h4>Methods</h4>Seated in a mechanical sled, 13 healthy volunteers (7 men, 6 women; mean age 25 years) were exposed to a series of visual (VIS) optokinetic, vestibular (VES) whole-body, and combined (VIS + VES) rotations. This was carrie ...[more]

PMID: 32392313

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Visual and Vestibular Integration Express Summative Eye Movement Responses and Reveal Higher Visual Acceleration Sensitivity than Previously Described.

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Visual and Vestibular Integration Express Summative Eye Movement Responses and Reveal Higher Visual Acceleration Sensitivity than Previously Described.

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