Firing behavior of vestibular neurons during active and passive head movements: Vestibulo-spinal and other non-eye-movement related neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 416-428

  McCrea, Robert A ^a   Gdowski, Greg T ^a   Boyle, Richard ^b   Belton, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SQUIRREL MONKEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032802263     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.1.416     Document Type: Article

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