Effects of Attention-Requiring Tasks on Vestibular Nystagmus
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology
- Vol. 89 (1) , 9-12
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000348948008900104
Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of two types of attention-requiring tasks on vestibular nystagmus elicited by caloric stimulation: mental arithmetic and a short conversation. The subjects were divided into four groups according to stimulus paradigm and task. It was found that conversation was consistently superior to mental arithmetic in engaging the cortex and preventing response decline and even reverse caloric-induced habituation.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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