Spatial orientation in humans: Perception of angular whole-body displacements in two-dimensional trajectories

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 419-427

  Ivanenko, Y ^a,c   Grasso, R ^a,b   Israel I ^a   Berthoz, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Human; Motion perception; Otolith canal interaction; Spatial orientation; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VOLUNTEER;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; ROTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030710145     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050236     Document Type: Article

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