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Head stabilization and eye counter-rotation driven by vestibular sensory input in response to rotational perturbations represent natural, ecologically important behaviors that can be reproduced in the laboratory and analyzed using relatively simple mathematical models. Models drawn from dynamical systems and control theory have previously been used to analyze the behavior of vestibular sensory neurons. In the Bayesian framework, which is becoming widely used in cognitive science, vestibular sense data must be modeled as random samples drawn from probability distributions whose parameters are kinematic state variables of the head. We show that Exwald distributions are accurate models of spontaneous interspike interval distributions in spike trains recoded from chinchilla semicircular canal afferent neurons. Each interval in an Exwald distribution is the sum of an interval drawn from an Exponential distribution and a Wald or Inverse Gaussian distribution. 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