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 ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Universe: I have a question for you. Why do you get dizzy when you read on the road? – Rebecca, 10 Dear Rebecca, Without even thinking about it, humans can use their eyes, ears, sense ...

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 ...

But the rest of us also defy gravity as we stand, walk, reach and run in our daily lives, thanks to our often ...