Response properties of pigeon otolith afferents to linear acceleration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 242-250

  Si, Xiaohong ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^a   Dickman, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Macula; Oculomotor; Primary afferents; Utricle; Vestibular; Vestibulo cochlear nerve

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HEAD POSITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTRICLE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COLUMBIDAE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 0030694513     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050219     Document Type: Article

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