Perceived body position and the visual horizontal

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 393-397

  Mast, Fred ^a   Jarchow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aubert effect; Otoliths; Subjective vertical; Vestibular psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY POSITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TILTING; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0029811888     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(96)00132-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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