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  • Title: A neural network simulation of the vestibular system: implications on the role of intervestibular nuclear coupling during vestibular compensation.
    Author: Cartwright AD, Curthoys IS.
    Journal: Biol Cybern; 1996 Dec; 75(6):485-93. PubMed ID: 9008352.
    Abstract:
    Previous neural network simulations of the vestibular system have been based loosely on known physiology. This research involved the use of a strongly physiologically based neural network model which was used to investigate the role of the vestibular commissure in restoring the bilateral symmetry of the resting rates of the vestibular nuclei during vestibular compensation following unilateral labyrinthectomy. It was found the readjustments in the gain of the vestibular commissure were not primarily responsible for vestibular compensation, as has previously been suggested, but rather that it was modifications in extralabyrinthine sources of tone which mediated the restoration of the central symmetry between the two nuclei.
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