Institute of Neuroscience and Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Oct;52:10-17. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.04.004. Epub 2018 Apr 23.
The vestibular peripheral organs in our inner ears detect transient motion of the head in everyday life. This information is sent to the central nervous system for automatic processes such as vestibulo-ocular reflexes, balance and postural control, and higher cognitive functions including perception of self-motion and spatial orientation. Recent neurophysiological studies have discovered a prominent vestibular network in the primate cerebral cortex. Many of the areas involved are multisensory: their neurons are modulated by both vestibular signals and visual optic flow, potentially facilitating more robust heading estimation through cue integration. Combining psychophysics, computation, physiological recording and causal manipulation techniques, recent work has addressed both the encoding and decoding of vestibular signals for self-motion perception.
我们内耳的前庭外周器官可以检测日常生活中头部的瞬间运动。这些信息被发送到中枢神经系统，用于自动处理，如前庭眼反射、平衡和姿势控制，以及更高的认知功能，包括自我运动感知和空间定位。最近的神经生理学研究发现了灵长类大脑皮层中一个突出的前庭网络。许多涉及的区域都是多感觉的：它们的神经元受到前庭信号和视觉光流的调制，通过线索整合，有可能促进更稳健的航向估计。最近的工作结合心理物理学、计算、生理记录和因果操作技术，既解决了前庭信号的编码和解码问题，也解决了自我运动感知问题。
