The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans

Lopez, Christophe; Blanke, Olaf

doi:10.1016/j.brainresrev.2010.12.002

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“…The TPJ is an important multisensory area, integrating inputs from the tactile, proprioceptive and visual systems, and, critically, from the vestibular system (Blanke & Arzy, 2005;Lopez & Blanke, 2011;Lopez, Halje, & Blanke, 2008). A vestibular contribution to self-location seems of relevance here because the sensations of elevation and floating reported by the participants of Ionta et al's study are close to vestibular illusions reported by patients with damage to the otolithic vestibular system and the central vestibular structures (Schilder, 1935).…”

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Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

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Costantini

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Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.

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Section: Neural Bases Of Whole-body Ownership and Self-locationmentioning

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Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

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“…The direction-specific effect observed in the present experiment extends this notion by showing that vestibular signals may facilitate the spatial updating of one's body representation, likely via a process of multisensory integration. More specifically, the facilitatory effect of vestibular stimulation may reflect the integration of low-level vestibular signals regarding self-rotation with a high-level multimodal representation of one's body (Blanke, 2012), possibly mediated by multisensory brain areas like the parieto-insular vestibular cortex (Lopez & Blanke, 2011), the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus (Ionta, Gassert, & Blanke, 2011;Ionta et al, 2011), as well as regions with vestibular neurons in posterior parietal and premotor cortex (Lopez & Blanke, 2011;Petkova et al, 2011).…”

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“…Thus, the results of these studies are inconclusive and may be related to the different methodologies used to stimulate the vestibular system. Both caloric and galvanic vestibular stimulation result in an unnatural activation of the vestibular organ (as well as Psychological Research other undesired side effects) and the activation of a large network of cortical structures, involving both visual and multisensory association areas (Lopez & Blanke, 2011). In the present study we propose to use passive whole-body rotations as a more natural way to selectively stimulate the semicircular canals and to investigate the effects of vestibular stimulation on mental own-body transformation.…”

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Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

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Blanke

2013

Psychological Research

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Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive information. Given the importance of vestibular signals for own-body perception, mental own-body imagery, and bodily self-consciousness, in the present study we hypothesized that vestibular stimulation due to passive own-body displacements should also modulate spatial perspective taking. Participants performed an own-body transformation task while being passively rotated in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction on a human motion platform. A congruency effect was observed, reflected in faster reaction times if the implied mental body rotation direction matched the actual rotation direction of the chair. These findings indicate that vestibular stimulation modulates and facilitates mental perspective taking, thereby highlighting the importance of integrating multisensory bodily information for spatial perspective taking.

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“…Despite the obvious importance of vestibular signals, the cortical organization of the vestibular system is not yet well established. Unlike other sensory systems, the number of vestibular cortical areas and the information they represent are still under debate (Dieterich and Brandt 2015;Guldin and Grüsser 1998;Kahane et al 2003;Lopez and Blanke 2011;Lopez et al 2012).…”

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“…For the definition of area PIVC, in addition to previous descriptions (e.g., Deutschländer et al 2002;Dieterich et al 2003;Eickhoff et al 2006;Lopez and Blanke 2011;Lopez et al 2012;zu Eulenburg et al 2012), results of a random-effects group analysis of the vestibular localizer were used (Fig. 3C).…”

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Visual-vestibular processing in the human Sylvian fissure

Frank

Wirth

Greenlee

2016

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Frank SM, Wirth AM, Greenlee MW. Visual-vestibular processing in the human Sylvian fissure. J Neurophysiol 116: 263-271, 2016. First published April 13, 2016 doi:10.1152/jn.00009.2016.-Unlike other sensory systems, the cortical organization of the human vestibular system is not well established. A central role is assumed for the region of the posterior Sylvian fissure, close to the posterior insula. At this site, activation during vestibular stimulation has been observed in previous imaging studies and labeled as the parieto-insular vestibular cortex area (PIVC). However, vestibular responses are found in other parts of the Sylvian fissure as well, including a region that is referred to as the posterior insular cortex (PIC). The anatomical and functional relationship between PIC and PIVC is still poorly understood, because both areas have never been compared in the same participants. Therefore, to better understand the apparently more complex organization of vestibular cortex in the Sylvian fissure, we employed caloric and visual object motion stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging and compared location and function of PIVC and PIC in the same participants. Both regions responded to caloric vestibular stimulation, but only the activation pattern in right PIVC reliably represented the direction of the caloric stimulus. Conversely, activity in PIVC was suppressed during stimulation with visual object motion, whereas PIC showed activation. Area PIC is located at a more posterior site in the Sylvian fissure than PIVC. Our results suggest that PIVC and PIC should be considered separate areas in the vestibular Sylvian network, both in terms of location and function. area PIC; area PIVC; caloric vestibular stimulation; Sylvian fissure; vestibular cortex NEW & NOTEWORTHY In this paper we examine vestibular and visual processing at the center of human vestibular cortex in the Sylvian fissure. We find that two areas, referred to as parietoinsular vestibular cortex (PIVC) and posterior insular cortex (PIC), are located in the Sylvian fissure and exhibit different functional specializations. Our results suggest a more complex organization at the putative core of human vestibular cortex than previously assumed.A CENTRAL FUNCTION OF THE vestibular sensory system is to signal our position and acceleration in space. This information is of critical relevance for guiding locomotion and for process- There is accumulating evidence that the potential hub of the cortical vestibular network is located in a region including the posterior part of the Sylvian fissure (also called lateral sulcus), perisylvian cortex, and the posterior insula. At this site, functional imaging studies in humans found activation during vestibular stimulation (Bense et al. 2001;Dieterich et al. 2003;Eickhoff et al. 2006;Fasold et al. 2002;Lobel et al. 1998) and labeled it the parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC), following terminology in the primate brain (Akbarian et al. 1988;Chen et al. 2010;Grüsser et al. 1990; Shinder and Newlands 2014...

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The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans

Cited by 468 publications

References 247 publications

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Visual-vestibular processing in the human Sylvian fissure

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