Inertial vestibular coding of motion: Concepts and evidence

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 860-866

  Hess, Bernhard J M ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 0031449118     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(97)80147-X     Document Type: Article

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