The effect of water immersion on postural and visual orientation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 879-886

  Jarchow, Thomas ^a   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

Author keywords

Extravestibular gravitoreception; Otoliths; Postural perception; Subjective visual vertical; Water immersion

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; CUES; DIVING; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; TILT-TABLE TEST; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

SAL VIEJA VIRUS;

EID: 0032743075     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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