Sensory Systems/Vestibular System

Introduction The main function of the balance system, or vestibular system, is to sense head movements, especially involuntary ones, and counter them with reflexive eye movements and postural adjustments that keep the visual world stable and keep us from falling. An excellent, more extensive article on the vestibular system is available on Scholorpedia Vestibular System http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Vestibular_system Kathleen Cullen and Soroush Sadeghi Scholarpedia 3(1):3013 2008 3 1 doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.3013 . An extensive review of our current knowledge about the vestibular system can be found in "The Vestibular System: a Sixth Sense" by J Goldberg et al The Vestibular System: a Sixth Sense" http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Vestibular_system JM Goldberg, VJ Wilson, KE Cullen and DE Angelaki Oxford University Press, USA 2012 . Auditory System Somatosensory System Sensory_Systems