The effect of auditory cues on heading direction during stepping-in-place in healthy adults with experimentally induced vestibular asymmetry
Assan Mary Cedras, Timothy Everett Hullar, Philippe Gourdou, Cyril Duclos, Karim Jamal, Daniel Paromov, François Champoux, Maxime Maheu · 2026
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Sound beacons barely steady blindfolded steppers whose inner ears are electrically perturbed, Assan Mary Cedras's 2026 lab tests find. Balance uses sight, inner ear signals, and body sense together. Sound may also guide stance, but its role in moving tasks was less known.
Twenty young healthy adults stepped in place while blindfolded with heads tilted forward. A mild electric signal to the inner ear faked a turning signal. Trials ran with no sound or with a fixed sound source nearby. Without the fake signal, sound did not cut heading drift or its spread. The fake signal pushed drift toward the active side in both sound setups. Sound alone was a weak guide here.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Assan Mary Cedras, Timothy Everett Hullar, Philippe Gourdou, Cyril Duclos, Karim Jamal, Daniel Paromov, François Champoux, Maxime Maheu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32548 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |