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Sep 19, 2013 at 18:43 vote accept CommunityBot
Sep 6, 2013 at 10:59 comment added user3116 No sweat, @ChuckSherrington. You're not getting paid by me ;-)
Sep 6, 2013 at 10:50 comment added Chuck Sherrington @what I haven't forgotten about you and I am not ignoring you, I just need to dig up the reference, otherwise I'll be guilty of encouraging others to do the same without doing it myself.
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:53 comment added user3116 That's why I said "I believe", @ChuckSherrington :-) Can you provide some quotable sources that explain any one motion aftereffect through the vestibular system?
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:27 comment added Chuck Sherrington @what the media is highly viscous, and the eyes do react (nystagmus). This is a standard explanation, yours is a bit abstract. Read about vertigo or damage to the canals or the cranial nerve.
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:19 comment added user3116 I believe this answer by Chuck is wrong. Common sense reason: the stimulation of the hair cells stops once the carrousel has stopped accelerating and reached a constant velocity. After that there is no more displacement of hair cells and they remain unaffected as long as the carrousel turns. Only when it brakes is there a stimulation again, and this is in the opposite direction due to braking, so in fact if this was the mechanism behind the aftereffect, the image should turn in the other direction, i.e. in the same direction that the carrousel had turned!
Sep 5, 2013 at 5:47 vote accept CommunityBot
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:39
Sep 5, 2013 at 4:09 history answered Chuck Sherrington CC BY-SA 3.0