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| • | Self-motion. |
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| • | Vertical
orientation. |
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| • | The vestibular
nuclei project to the ventral thalamus |
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| (VP/VL) and
thence to area 2v. A number of cortical |
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| areas have
vestibular responses, but cortical |
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| vestibular
processing is poorly understood. |
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| • | Patients with
lesions of parietoinsular cortex have |
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| difficulty
perceiving the vertical: they think vertical |
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| lines tilt away
from the side of the lesion. |
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