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J Neurophysiol 82: 416-428, 1999;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 82 No. 1 July 1999, pp. 416-428
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

Firing Behavior of Vestibular Neurons During Active and Passive Head Movements: Vestibulo-Spinal and Other Non-Eye-Movement Related Neurons

Robert A. McCrea,1 Greg T. Gdowski,1 Richard Boyle,2 and Timothy Belton1

 1Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637; and  2Neuro-Sensory Research Center/Oregon Health Research Center, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201

McCrea, Robert A., Greg T. Gdowski, Richard Boyle, and Timothy Belton. Firing Behavior of Vestibular Neurons During Active and Passive Head Movements: Vestibulo-Spinal and Other Non-Eye-Movement Related Neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 82: 416-428, 1999.The firing behavior of 51 non-eye movement related central vestibular neurons that were sensitive to passive head rotation in the plane of the horizontal semicircular canal was studied in three squirrel monkeys whose heads were free to move in the horizontal plane. Unit sensitivity to active head movements during spontaneous gaze saccades was compared with sensitivity to passive head rotation. Most units (29/35 tested) were activated at monosynaptic latencies following electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral vestibular nerve. Nine were vestibulo-spinal units that were antidromically activated following electrical stimulation of the ventromedial funiculi of the spinal cord at C1. All of the units were less sensitive to active head movements than to passive whole body rotation. In the majority of cells (37/51, 73%), including all nine identified vestibulo-spinal units, the vestibular signals related to active head movements were canceled. The remaining units (n = 14, 27%) were sensitive to active head movements, but their responses were attenuated by 20-75%. Most units were nearly as sensitive to passive head-on-trunk rotation as they were to whole body rotation; this suggests that vestibular signals related to active head movements were cancelled primarily by subtraction of a head movement efference copy signal. The sensitivity of most units to passive whole body rotation was unchanged during gaze saccades. A fundamental feature of sensory processing is the ability to distinguish between self-generated and externally induced sensory events. Our observations suggest that the distinction is made at an early stage of processing in the vestibular system.




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