Envelope statistics of self-motion signals experienced by human subjects during everyday activities: Implications for vestibular processing

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 12; no. 6; p. e0178664
• Main Authors: Carriot, Jérome, Jamali, Mohsen, Cullen, Kathleen E., Chacron, Maurice J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 02.06.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Adaptation; Adult; Afferent Pathways - physiology; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Brain; Coding; Constraints; Deviation; Engineering and Technology; Envelopes; External stimuli; Female; Filtration; Head Movements - physiology; Human body; Human motion; Human subjects; Humans; Invariance; Male; Mathematical models; Models, Neurological; Motion Perception - physiology; Motion sickness; Movement - physiology; Neural coding; Neurons; Neurosciences; Physical Sciences; Physiology; Power law; Proprioception - physiology; Rotation; Scale invariance; Signal processing; Spectra; Spectrum Analysis; Statistics; Statistics (Data); Stimuli; Studies; Temporal variations; Translation; Translations; Variance; Velocity; Vestibular system; Young Adult; United States; Canada; Montreal Quebec Canada

There is accumulating evidence that the brain's neural coding strategies are constrained by natural stimulus statistics. Here we investigated the statistics of the time varying envelope (i.e. a second-order stimulus attribute that is related to variance) of rotational and translational self-mot...