The role of the otoliths in perception of the vertical and in path integration

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 871, Issue , 1999, Pages 334-344

  Mittelstaedt, Horst ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 0033019556     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09196.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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