期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 25, 期 2, 页码 554-562出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht266
关键词
dancers; perceptuo-reflex uncoupling; training; vestibular-ocular reflex; vestibular perception
资金
- Academy of Medical Sciences and Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellowship
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- Wellcome Trust
- Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) [AMS-CSF3-Seemungal] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [1110783, G0701951] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NIHR-RP-011-048, CL-2008-18-006] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0701951] Funding Source: UKRI
Sensory input evokes low-order reflexes and higher-order perceptual responses. Vestibular stimulation elicits vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) and self-motion perception (e.g., vertigo) whose response durations are normally equal. Adaptation to repeated whole-body rotations, for example, ballet training, is known to reduce vestibular responses. We investigated the neuroanatomical correlates of vestibular perceptuo-reflex adaptation in ballet dancers and controls. Dancers' vestibular-reflex and perceptual responses to whole-body yaw-plane step rotations were: (1) Briefer and (2) uncorrelated (controls' reflex and perception were correlated). Voxel-based morphometry showed a selective gray matter (GM) reduction in dancers' vestibular cerebellum correlating with ballet experience. Dancers' vestibular cerebellar GM density reduction was related to shorter perceptual responses (i.e. positively correlated) but longer VOR duration (negatively correlated). Contrastingly, controls' vestibular cerebellar GM density negatively correlated with perception and VOR. Diffusion-tensor imaging showed that cerebral cortex white matter (WM) microstructure correlated with vestibular perception but only in controls. In summary, dancers display vestibular perceptuo-reflex dissociation with the neuronatomical correlate localized to the vestibular cerebellum. Controls' robust vestibular perception correlated with a cortical WM network conspicuously absent in dancers. Since primary vestibular afferents synapse in the vestibular cerebellum, we speculate that a cerebellar gating of perceptual signals to cortical regions mediates the training-related attenuation of vestibular perception and perceptuo-reflex uncoupling.
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