The Vestibular System
Posted February 12, 2014
Remember the dizzy feeling you got as a child after you jumped off the merry-go-round or spun around like a top? These feelings result from activation of the vestibular system, which detects our movements through space but is not a conscious sense like vision or hearing. Join David Dickman and Dora Angelaki from Baylor College of Medicine to explore the workings of the vestibular system and consider some of the integrated computations the brain performs using vestibular signals to guide our common behavior.
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