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Category: Sensory Systems
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| Vestibular otolith organs (Sensory Systems)
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The vestibular otolithic organs detect linear motion.
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| Vestibular-canals (Sensory Systems)
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Angular acceleration of the head produces sensory inputs that stabilize eye movements allowing visual field fixation during head movement. The sensors are fluid containng semicircular canals that detect inertia in the canals. Vestibular neurons project directly to motoneurons of eye muscles.
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| Vestibular CNS (Sensory Systems)
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CNS pathways of the vestibular system enter the upper medulla and project to the middbrain tectum and the thalamus and cortex.
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