Abstract
Several distinct and separate areas of the parietal and temporal cortex have been identified in animal studies as receiving vestibular afferents, such as area 2v at the tip of the intraparietal sulcus, area 3aV in the central sulcus, the parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC) at the posterior end of the insula, area 6 and area 7 in the inferior temporal lobule. Our knowledge about the location and function of vestibular cortex in humans is less precise, derived mainly from stimulation experiments reported anecdotally in the older literature. Thus, functional imaging studies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were recently performed to identify activated cortex areas during different vestibular stimuli.
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von Steinbüchel, N., Steffen, A., Wittmann, M. (1997). Symposium 7. In: von Steinbüchel, N., Steffen, A., Wittmann, M. (eds) 29th Annual General Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. Experimental Brain Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-40459-1_8
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