Motion sickness is caused by vestibular sensory conflict. This means, there is a difference between incoming vestibular information and what we expect that vestibular information to be. Symptoms of ...

Did Animals Sense Tsunami Was Coming? Before the tsunami in Sri Lanka, coastal animals seemed to sense something was coming and fled to safety. By Maryann Mott January 3, 2005 ...

Natus Sensory, the world leader in hearing and balance diagnostic systems, announces the official US launch of the ICS® Dizcovery VNG today at the American A ...

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Science Zoology A sixth sense discovered in geckos Column Nathaniel Herzberg Saccules, vesicles in the inner ear, enable the lizard to 'hear' soundless vibrations at very low frequencies ...

Thus, it is responsible for the sense of spatial awareness and balance. Vestibular disease is also called the old dog's disease, as it mostly affects senior dogs.

But the rest of us also defy gravity as we stand, walk, reach and run in our daily lives, thanks to our often underappreciated vestibular sense of balance and the Olympic-level calculations our ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated.

For example, to see clearly while turning your head, your brain moves your eye opposite and equal to the motion of your head. It does so based on feedback from the sensors in your inner ear that ...