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Bilateral Vestibulopathy Affects Spatial And Temporal Perception.

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Bilateral Vestibulopathy Affects Spatial And Temporal Perception.

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Olga Kuldavletova¹, Deborah Cecilia Navarro Morales¹, Timothy R Macaulay²

¹COMETE U1075, Université de Caen Normandie, INSERM, CYCERON, Caen, France.

|November 6, 2025

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Individuals with bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP) struggle with combined spatial tasks, despite intact time perception. Compensatory strategies are less effective when distance and angle perception are combined.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Human Perception
Vestibular System Research

Background:

The vestibular system is critical for balance and spatial orientation.
Bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP) involves damage to the vestibular organs, impacting spatial awareness.
Understanding sensory compensation mechanisms is vital for managing BVP and related conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate spatial and temporal perception deficits in individuals with BVP.
To compare the performance of BVP subjects and healthy controls (CTL) on distance, angle, and duration perception tasks.
To investigate the effectiveness of sensory compensation strategies in BVP during combined spatial tasks.

Main Methods:

30 BVP subjects and 35 CTL participated in perception tests.

Tasks included separate assessments of distance, angle, and duration perception.

A triangle completion task (TCT) assessed combined distance and angle perception.

Main Results:

BVP subjects exhibited greater errors in separate distance and angle perception compared to CTL.
During the TCT, BVP subjects showed increased path length and angle deviation.
BVP subjects accurately perceived time intervals, unlike CTL subjects.

Conclusions:

While proprioception and other strategies aid BVP individuals in separate spatial tasks, they are less effective when distance and angle perception are combined.
BVP impairs combined spatial processing more than individual sensory modalities.
Findings have implications for space exploration, as microgravity affects vestibular otolith function similarly to BVP.