Neuronal correlates of passive body rotation – an EEG study

Introduction: During the last years a bilateral network of cortical and subcortical areas in the temporo-parietal cortex around a core region in the posterior insula was delineated by functional imaging studies processing vestibular information [1 – 3]. This vestibular input has to be integrated with inputs from other sensory modalities such as visual and somatosensory. Our hypothesis was that coherent oscillatory firing patterns might be crucial for mediating cross-system integration of the brain. Compared to other sensory systems, however, the data on neural correlates of vestibular function in humans via EEG…