As human space exploration advances to establish a permanent presence beyond the Low
Earth Orbit (LEO) with NASA's Artemis mission, researchers are striving to understand and …

Spatial learning and navigation depend on neural representations of location and direction
within the environment. These representations, encoded by place cells and head direction …

Interest in space habitation has grown dramatically with planning underway for the first
human transit to Mars. Despite a robust history of domestic and international spaceflight …

Animals occupy territories in which resources such as food and shelter are often distributed
unevenly. While studies of exploratory behavior have typically involved the laboratory rodent …

Elevated levels of stress and anxiety often accompany vestibular dysfunction, while
conversely complaints of dizziness and loss of balance are common in patients with panic …

Sexually dimorphic performance has been observed across humans and rodents in many
spatial tasks. In general, these spatial tasks do not dissociate the use of environmental and …

Rodent open field behavior is highly organized and occurs spontaneously in novel
environments. This organization is disrupted in mice with vestibular pathology, suggesting …

The organization of rodent exploratory behavior appears to depend on self-movement cue
processing. As of yet, however, no studies have directly examined the vestibular system's …

Abstract Usher syndrome, Type 1C (USH1C) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder in
which a mutation in the gene encoding harmonin is associated with multi-sensory deficits …

Rats and mice with bilateral vestibular loss exhibit dramatic locomotor hyperactivity and
circling behaviours, which to date cannot be explained. Dysfunction of the striatal …