Sensory processing in the vestibular nuclei during active head movements

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-28

  Gdowski, G T ^a   Boyle, R ^b   McCrea, R A ^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; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WHOLE BODY AUTORADIOGRAPHY;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NECK; NECK MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; REFLEX; ROTATION; SACCADES; SAIMIRI; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VOLITION;

EID: 0033990152     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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