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Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human

Neurophysiological tests probing the vestibulo‐ocular, colic and spinal pathways are the gold standard to evaluate the vestibular system in clinics. In contrast, vestibular perception is rarely tested despite its potential usefulness in professional training and for the longitudinal follow‐up of pro...

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Autores principales: Keriven Serpollet, Dimitri, Hartnagel, David, James, Yannick, Buffat, Stéphane, Vayatis, Nicolas, Bargiotas, Ioannis, Vidal, Pierre‐Paul
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780905
http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15374
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author Keriven Serpollet, Dimitri
Hartnagel, David
James, Yannick
Buffat, Stéphane
Vayatis, Nicolas
Bargiotas, Ioannis
Vidal, Pierre‐Paul
author_facet Keriven Serpollet, Dimitri
Hartnagel, David
James, Yannick
Buffat, Stéphane
Vayatis, Nicolas
Bargiotas, Ioannis
Vidal, Pierre‐Paul
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description Neurophysiological tests probing the vestibulo‐ocular, colic and spinal pathways are the gold standard to evaluate the vestibular system in clinics. In contrast, vestibular perception is rarely tested despite its potential usefulness in professional training and for the longitudinal follow‐up of professionals dealing with complex man–machine interfaces, such as aircraft pilots. This is explored here using a helicopter flight simulator to probe the vestibular perception of pilots. The vestibular perception of nine professional helicopter pilots was tested using a full flight helicopter simulator. The cabin was tilted six times in roll and six times in pitch (−15°, −10°, −5°, 5°, 10° and 15°) while the pilots had no visual cue. The velocities of the outbound displacement of the cabin were kept below the threshold of the semicircular canal perception. After the completion of each movement, the pilots were asked to put the cabin back in the horizontal plane (still without visual cues). The order of the 12 trials was randomized with two additional control trials where the cabin stayed in the horizontal plane but rotated in yaw (−10° and +10°). Pilots were significantly more precise in roll (average error in roll: 1.15 ± 0.67°) than in pitch (average error in pitch: 2.89 ± 1.06°) (Wilcoxon signed‐rank test: p < 0.01). However, we did not find a significant difference either between left and right roll tilts (p = 0.51) or between forward and backward pitch tilts (p = 0.59). Furthermore, we found that the accuracies were significantly biased with respect to the initial tilt. The greater the initial tilt was, the less precise the pilots were, although maintaining the direction of the tilt, meaning that the error can be expressed as a vestibular error gain in the ability to perceive the modification in the orientation. This significant result was found in both roll (Friedman test: p < 0.01) and pitch (p < 0.001). However, the pitch trend error was more prominent (gain = 0.77 vs gain = 0.93) than roll. This study is a first step in the determination of the perceptive‐motor profile of pilots, which could be of major use for their training and their longitudinal follow‐up. A similar protocol may also be useful in clinics to monitor the aging process of the otolith system with a simplified testing device.
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spelling pubmed-99252772023-02-14 Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human Keriven Serpollet, Dimitri Hartnagel, David James, Yannick Buffat, Stéphane Vayatis, Nicolas Bargiotas, Ioannis Vidal, Pierre‐Paul Physiol Rep Original Articles Neurophysiological tests probing the vestibulo‐ocular, colic and spinal pathways are the gold standard to evaluate the vestibular system in clinics. In contrast, vestibular perception is rarely tested despite its potential usefulness in professional training and for the longitudinal follow‐up of professionals dealing with complex man–machine interfaces, such as aircraft pilots. This is explored here using a helicopter flight simulator to probe the vestibular perception of pilots. The vestibular perception of nine professional helicopter pilots was tested using a full flight helicopter simulator. The cabin was tilted six times in roll and six times in pitch (−15°, −10°, −5°, 5°, 10° and 15°) while the pilots had no visual cue. The velocities of the outbound displacement of the cabin were kept below the threshold of the semicircular canal perception. After the completion of each movement, the pilots were asked to put the cabin back in the horizontal plane (still without visual cues). The order of the 12 trials was randomized with two additional control trials where the cabin stayed in the horizontal plane but rotated in yaw (−10° and +10°). Pilots were significantly more precise in roll (average error in roll: 1.15 ± 0.67°) than in pitch (average error in pitch: 2.89 ± 1.06°) (Wilcoxon signed‐rank test: p < 0.01). However, we did not find a significant difference either between left and right roll tilts (p = 0.51) or between forward and backward pitch tilts (p = 0.59). Furthermore, we found that the accuracies were significantly biased with respect to the initial tilt. The greater the initial tilt was, the less precise the pilots were, although maintaining the direction of the tilt, meaning that the error can be expressed as a vestibular error gain in the ability to perceive the modification in the orientation. This significant result was found in both roll (Friedman test: p < 0.01) and pitch (p < 0.001). However, the pitch trend error was more prominent (gain = 0.77 vs gain = 0.93) than roll. This study is a first step in the determination of the perceptive‐motor profile of pilots, which could be of major use for their training and their longitudinal follow‐up. A similar protocol may also be useful in clinics to monitor the aging process of the otolith system with a simplified testing device. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9925277/ /pubmed/36780905 http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15374 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Buffat, Stéphane
Vayatis, Nicolas
Bargiotas, Ioannis
Vidal, Pierre‐Paul
Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human
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title_fullStr Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human
title_full_unstemmed Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human
title_short Tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human
title_sort tilt perception is different in the pitch and roll planes in human
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780905
http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.15374
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