Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Vestibular senses Every day you wake up with an instant sense of which way is up. That’s thanks to your vestibular sense’s finely honed ability to discern the direction of the pull of gravity.

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 ...

Our sense of balance actually comprises three components: vision; our subconscious ability to “detect the movements of muscles and joints,” known as proprioception; and the vestibular system ...

Then if they ask further questions, I can explain that maintaining balance is complex. The brain has to combine three kinds of sensory information –the body’s sense of location and movement through ...

This vestibular sense has a lot to do with the rhythmic aspects of singing. So pick a run that you do or a riff, do these drills, and then sing it. See if it feels any easier after you do them.

The vestibular sense helps us keep our balance and know where we are in space; proprioception has to do with the way our joints respond to movement and pressure. "It's the sense that makes deep ...