Mooti Rami, Park Hangue
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Front Neurosci. 2022 Jan 24;15:774448. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.774448. eCollection 2021.
The contribution of cervical proprioception, vision, and vestibular feedback to the dynamic head-trunk orientation error in the yaw direction was investigated to further the understanding over the mechanism of coordination among different sensory modalities for dynamic head-trunk orientation. To test the contribution of each sensory modality, individually and together, to dynamic head-trunk orientation, 10 healthy human subjects participated in the extended cervical joint position error test, measuring the ability of repositioning the head back to the reference orientation after 45° yaw rotation of head or trunk. The error between initial and returned angles was measured. The test was repeated under eight different conditions of sensory feedback, with or without each of three sensory modalities. Each subject completed 64 trials (8 per condition) in a random order for fair comparison. No change was found in bias when one of the three modalities was missing, while variance was largest at the lack of dynamic cervical proprioception. When two of the three modalities were missing (i.e., one of the three modalities was present), both bias and variance were minimum at the presence of cervical proprioception. Additionally, both visual and vestibular feedback was redundant (i.e., no further improvement in both bias and variance), if the other one (visual or vestibular feedback) was present with dynamic cervical proprioception. In sum, the experimental results suggest that dynamic cervical proprioception is the most significant sensory modality for reducing the dynamic head-trunk orientation error in the yaw direction.
研究了颈部本体感觉、视觉和前庭反馈对偏航方向动态头-躯干定向误差的影响,以进一步了解不同感觉模态在动态头-躯干定向中的协调机制。为了测试每种感觉模态单独和共同对动态头-躯干定向的贡献,10名健康受试者参与了扩展的颈椎关节位置误差测试,测量头部或躯干进行45°偏航旋转后将头部重新定位到参考方向的能力。测量初始角度和返回角度之间的误差。在有或没有三种感觉模态中的每一种的八种不同感觉反馈条件下重复该测试。为了进行公平比较,每个受试者以随机顺序完成64次试验(每种条件8次)。当三种模态中的一种缺失时,偏差没有变化,而在缺乏动态颈部本体感觉时方差最大。当三种模态中的两种缺失(即三种模态中的一种存在)时,如果存在颈部本体感觉,偏差和方差均最小。此外,如果另一种(视觉或前庭反馈)与动态颈部本体感觉一起存在,则视觉和前庭反馈都是冗余的(即偏差和方差都没有进一步改善)。总之,实验结果表明动态颈部本体感觉是减少偏航方向动态头-躯干定向误差最重要的感觉模态。