Exam 12: Vestibular Sensation

What are the three modalities of spatial orientation perception?

When you take an elevator from the first floor to the fifth floor of a building, the motion you experience is called _______ translation.

When participants are passively translated short distances while seated in a chair in the dark and then asked to use a joystick to actively move the chair to reproduce the distance that they just traveled, how do they do at this task?

The _______ are tiny calcium carbonate stones in the ear that provide inertial mass for the otolith organs, enabling them to sense gravity and linear acceleration.

Which motion stimulus would yield the largest response from the vestibular system?

_______ are specialized detectors of linear acceleration and gravity found in each otolith organ.

When you accelerate in a car and are pushed back into your seat, you are experiencing _______, which is registered by your _______.

If you spend the day at the ocean playing in the waves, you might experience an illusory sense of rocking motion while you are falling asleep at night. This is known as

The _______ reflex is the term for eye movements that compensate for rotations of the head to maintain fixation on an object.

_______ are the toroidal tubes in the vestibular system that sense angular motion.

If you read your phone while riding in the car, your visual input will not match your vestibular input and you might experience

Refer to the graph. The data in this graph show that when subjects are rotated in the dark, they first feel a sense of motion consistent with their actual motion, but soon feel as if they are _______. After 30 seconds, they feel as if they have _______. If the motion abruptly stops, subjects feel as if they are rotating in the _______ direction.

The _______ innervate(s) glands, the heart, and the digestive system, and is responsible for regulation of many involuntary actions.

Which situation might cause an illusory sense of self-motion due to multisensory integration?

The neural processes of posture control by which weight is evenly distributed, enabling us to remain upright and stable, is called

This term describes an illusory sense of spinning.

If, for some unfortunate reason, your maculae are destroyed, which senses would you then lack?

The sense of _______ registers head inclination with respect to gravity.

The sense of _______ registers motion resulting from translation.

The sudden and unexpected onset of dizziness, imbalance, and spatial disorientation causing a patient to fall down or experience motion sickness so severe that they repeatedly vomit is called