Oculomotor response to linear acceleration as induced by counter- rotation in supine subjects

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-128

  Cheung, Bob ^a   Money, Ken ^a   Eizenman, Moshe ^b  

^a DEF AND CIV INST OF ENVIRON MED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NYSTAGMUS; OTOLITH; ROTATION; SACCULUS; SUPINE POSITION; UTRICLE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AVIATION; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; ROTATION; SUPINE POSITION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0031896250     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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