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Vestibular function is hard for me. Please help!
Hello everyone,
[PLAIN]http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/aud9.gif
First of all I don't understand the pic. Why is the endolymph moving in opposite direction to the movement of head, shouldn't it move the same way. How is inertia involved in this and what is the paragraph saying.
Thanks
Hello everyone,
[PLAIN]http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/aud9.gif
When you turn your head in the plane of the canal, the inertia of the endolymph causes it to slosh against the cupula, deflecting the hair cells. Now, if you were to keep turning in circles, eventually the fluid would catch up with the canal, and there would be no more pressure on the cupula. If you stopped spinning, the moving fluid would slosh up against a suddenly still cupula, and you would feel as though you were turning in the other direction. This is the explanation for the phenomenon you discovered when you were 5.
First of all I don't understand the pic. Why is the endolymph moving in opposite direction to the movement of head, shouldn't it move the same way. How is inertia involved in this and what is the paragraph saying.
Thanks
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