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 ...

What causes motion sickness? The theory of vestibular sensory conflict is to blame, but scientists are also studying ...

Imagine you are in the car reading your favorite book. All of a sudden ... part of a network you use to sense your movement in the world that scientists call the vestibular system.

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 ...