Balance control threshold to vestibular stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Bipedalism renders our erect posture unstable, requiring the integration and processing of multisensory information to remain upright. To understand how each sense contributes to balance, perceptual thresholds to isolated sensory disturbances while standing are typically quantified. Perception, however, is distinct from balance control. Both processes rely on distinct internal body representations, and participants can misattribute the consequences of self-generated balance-correcting actions as an external perturbation. Here, we used signal detection theory to quantify non-perceptual balance control thresholds to isolated vestibular stimuli given the role of vestibular cues in generating balance-correcting responses. We exposed participants standing on force plates to electrical vestibula

SUBMITTER: Simoneau M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12072247 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature