Parabolic flight reveals independent binocular control of otolith- induced eye torsion

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-86

  Markham, C H ^a   Diamond, S G ^a   Stoller, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; SPACE; TELEVISION CAMERA; TORSION;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ASTRONAUTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION SICKNESS; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFLEX; TORSION; VISION, BINOCULAR; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033991356     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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