Assessment of the perception of verticality and horizontality with self-paced saccades

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-50

  Pettorossi, V E ^a   Bambagioni, D ^a   Bronstein, A M ^b   Gresty, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horizon; Perception; Saccades; Spatial orientation; Verticality; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; GRAVITY; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; EAR, INNER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0031749548     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050435     Document Type: Article

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