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In anesthetized toads, spontaneous activities were recorded from single afferent fibers of three semicircular canals and three otolith organs. Since some efferent fibers ramify within the eighth nerve and innervate two or more vestibular organs, a single branchlet of the eighth nerve was disconnected from its end organ, and was electrically stimulated to activate divergent efferent collaterals leading to other vestibular organs. The stimulation elicited an inhibitory effect on spontaneous activities of about one third of the afferent population, and a facilitatory effect on those of another one third. The remaining one third was unaffected. Whether or not the inhibitory or facilitatory effect was observed in an individual unit seemed to be related to its pattern and its rate of spontaneous activity. Most of the units showing relatively high and regular spontaneous firing were insensitive to the electrical stimulation, and units with a low firing rate and an irregular pattern of activity tended to be affected by the electrical stimulation. The activation of divergent efferent fibers elicited both inhibition and facilitation on the spontaneous afferent activities in all vestibular nerve branchlets, except in the saccular branchlet, where only inhibition was elicited. Electrical stimulation of the central stump of the saccular nerve branchlet, however, could produce both inhibitory and facilitatory effects in other vestibular nerve branchlets.

Effects of Activation of the Divergent Efferent Fibers on the Spontaneous Activity of Vestibular Afferent Fibers in the Toad.