All these activities involve the head moving in different ways that stimulate the vestibular system.
The vestibular system works with the visual system to keep objects in focus when the head is moving.
They also exhibit balance difficulties and learn to walk slowly as children, due to problems in their vestibular system.
Not surprisingly, calls to abolish the vestibular system, always common, are growing louder.
In fact, the vestibular system is not necessary at all to maintain standing balance unless information from the other two systems becomes inadequate.
The balance organs of the inner ear (the vestibular system).
Further critical periods have been identified for the development of hearing and the vestibular system.
The vestibular system is important in maintaining balance, or equilibrium.
Sensory information from the vestibular system allows the head to move back into position when disturbed as the rest of the body follows.
The vestibular system is one of the major sources of information about one's own motion.