Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Context-independent encoding of passive and active self-motion in vestibular afferent fibers during locomotion in primates

  • Isabelle Mackrous,
  • Jérome Carriot,
  • Kathleen E. Cullen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27753-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Using experimental and computational approaches the authors show that the vestibular efferent system does not modulate peripheral coding during locomotion. Instead, vestibular afferents unambiguously convey information in a context independent manner.