The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside the other. Figure 3 illustrates the basic organization of both the organs of hearing and balance. The fluid in the two chambers ...

The inner ear cavity proves to be a useful tool for studying the evolutionary ... Urciuoli et al., “The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans,” eLife, doi:7554/eLife.51261 Amy ...

Speaking of balance, there's one other incredibly important structure you can find inside your inner ear: the vestibular system. Kind of like a level, it controls your balance using a number of ...

The inner ear of a blue whale ... oval window and vestibular system (semicircular canals). Researchers can model an animal's hearing based on the anatomy of its auditory system.

Electronystagmography/Videonystagmography (ENG/VNG) is an examination of eye movements called nystagmus which are provoked by stimulation of the inner ear. The exam ...

A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that ...

The discovery is an important expansion of recent findings about sound and its effect on the inner ear. Increasing evidence ... can broadly activate the vestibular system, which is responsible ...

Two recent papers demonstrate that the vestibular system transforms raw sensory data into a sophisticated internal model of head orientation and movement. You have full access to this article via ...

The combination of fluid and tiny hairs in the inner ear help the vertebrate brain interpret an organism’s position in space and provides a sense of balance. Although these vestibular systems evolved ...