Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Question 2

Explain what vestibular sense is and how it works.

11 comments:

  1. Alyssa Jones,

    Vestibular sense is a mechanism enacted to adjust our bodies with regards to gravity. More specifically, it tells us when we are moving and how our motion is changing. It does this by using its receptors, small hairs in the inner ear, to counter and identify other movement in other parts of the inner ear.

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  2. Vestibular sense is in the Vestibular system. which is a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head. What the vestibular sense does is it monitors the awareness of the body balance and movements. It is the sensations of body rotation and of gravitation and movement.

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  3. The vestibular sense is the sense of which your body is positioned. Tells us how are body's posture is. Vestibular tells us how we are moving or how our motion is changing. They are tiny hairs in the inner ear, respond to movement by the detecting the movements in the fluid of the semicircular canals.

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  4. Vestibular sense is the sense of body orientation with gravity. It is the position of our body, it tells us when we are moving, and how motions change. Vestibular sense works by balancing our sense of spatial orientation

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  5. The vestibular sense is the sense that tells you your body's position and its movements. It also includes the sense of balance. It sends signals over the auditory nerve into the brain.

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  6. vestibular sense comes from the inside of your ear, and it sends out signals to your body. Vestibular sense has to do with your body's movement and it tells your brain your position. Inside the ear there are sacs that move when your body move and they touch hair inside of your ear, and the hairs send out signals to your brain. If you are moving a lot, like spinning around, you get dizzy and that is your reaction from the sacs moving around, and that is the reaction your brain sends out to your body:dizziness, imbalance, etc.

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  7. Vestibular sense is the "sense" of body position, that basically tells you were you are in respect to gravity. The way it works is that there are receptors,that are hairs found in the inner ear within the semicicular canals. The hairs detect your movements by the fluid in the canals, and respond accordingly.

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  8. The sense of body orientation with respect to gravity . The Vestibular sense is tightly involed with the inner ear , and is also carried to the brain on a branch of the auditory nerve.

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  9. A complex sense involved with perception with bodily positions and movements. Its stimulated by the pull of gravity. Mediated by branch like cells of the auditory nerve to the brain.

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  10. A vestibular sense is a sensory system located in the inner ear that basically tells the orientation of the head. It works by the vestibular system sends commands signals primarily to the neural structures that control our eye motion, and to the muscles that keep us all in check.

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  11. Vestibular sense is a sense that pretty much puts our body into perspective, gravity being the main force. Vestibular sense makes us aware of the posture of our own body, and also tells us about our movement and changes in our movement. It works based on our receptors, which are tiny hairs that can be found in our ear, that react to our movements by detecting other movements in the fluid of the semicircular canals.

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