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Vestibular blueprint in early vertebrates

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Straka, Hans, Baker, Robert·2013·Frontiers in Neural Circuits
DOI 10.3389/fncir.2013.00182PMC PMC3833255
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Central vestibular neurons form identifiable subgroups within the boundaries of classically outlined octavolateral nuclei in primitive vertebrates that are distinct from those processing lateral line, electrosensory, and auditory signals. Each vestibular subgroup exhibits a particular morpho-physiological property that receives origin-specific sensory inputs from semicircular canal and otolith organs. Behaviorally characterized phenotypes send discrete axonal projections to extraocular, spinal, and cerebellar targets including other ipsi- and contralateral vestibular nuclei. The anatomical locations of vestibuloocular and vestibulospinal neurons correlate with genetically defined hindbrain compartments that are well conserved throughout vertebrate evolution though some variability exists in fossil and extant vertebrate species. The different vestibular subgroups exhibit a robust sensorimotor signal processing complemented with a high degree of vestibular and visual adaptive plasticity.

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  • The vestibular system provides a "sense of position" encoded in egocentric frames of reference anchored to the invariant direction of the gravity field and provides the sensory basis for inertial navigation.

    “the vestibular system, that provides a “sense of position” encoded in egocentric frames of reference anchored to the invariant direction of the gravity field and that also provide the sensory basis for inertial navigation”

    From Spatial Cognition in Teleost Fish: Strategies and Mechanisms (2021) · cites this paper as [115]

    The Introduction says the utricle detects head and body position relative to Earth’s gravity, creating an internal frame of reference for orientation and locomotor behavior. This supports the gravity-anchored positional reference, but our copy does not say that the vestibular system provides the sensory basis for inertial navigation; a search for that term found no such passage. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Some sensory systems and neural networks involved in egocentric navigation in teleost fish are shared with other vertebrates and seem to correspond to an ancestral design well-conserved in different vertebrate radiations.

    “Some of these systems are shared with other vertebrates and seem to correspond to an ancestral design well-conserved in the different vertebrate radiations.”

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Straka, H., & Baker, R.
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  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
  • NYU Langone Health (US)
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Straka, Hans
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Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Frontiers Media SA
Published
2013
Volume
7
Pages
182-182
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1662-5110 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fncir.2013.00182
PMC
PMC3833255
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W2059986951
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  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TP B12, SFB 870, SFB 870, TP B12)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Eye Institute (R01EY002007, EY002007)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords
vestibular nuclei, vestibulo-ocular reflex, vestibulospinal neurons, semicircular canals, otolith organs, axonal projections, sensorimotor plasticity, early vertebrates, fossil vertebrates
MeSH terms
Animals, Biological Evolution, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Vertebrates, Vestibule, Labyrinth, Vestibular Nerve, Vestibular Nuclei

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