Integration of somatosensory and vestibular inputs in perceiving the direction of passive whole-body motion

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-327

  Ivanenko, Yuri P ^a   Grasso, Renato ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Body scheme; Human; Motion perception; Reference frame; Somatosensory system; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TACTILE STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

HEAD; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSATION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0030978894     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00011-6     Document Type: Article

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