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Vestibular receptors are hair cells, which are very similar in structure and operation to cochlear hair cells. Recently it has been shown that afferent nerves from otolithic receptor hair cells in the striola of the otolithic sense organs – the utricular and saccular maculae – respond to vibration and sound. That has quickly been translated to clinical application by measuring myogenic potentials elicited by sound and vibration. The saccular macula and the utricular macula have differential projections to various muscle groups, and that has been used to index the differential function of saccular and utricular maculae. The cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) indicates mainly the saccular function and the ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) indicates mainly the utricular function.
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The otolithic receptors of the vestibular system of the inner ear (the utricular and saccular maculae) sense linear acceleration...
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Curthoys, I. (2014). Vestibular Otoliths, Response to Vibration and Sound. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_155-2
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