Humans use internal models to estimate gravity and linear acceleration

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 615-618

  Merfeld, Daniel M ^a,b   Zupan, Lionel ^a   Peterka, Robert J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ACCELERATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS;

EID: 0033561134     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19303     Document Type: Article

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