Vestibular, visual, and somatosensory contributions to human control of upright stance

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 99-102

  Maurer, C ^a   Mergner, T ^a   Bolha, B ^b   Hlavacka, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Intersensory interaction; Posture control; Somatosensory; Upright stance; Vestibular; Vestibular loss; Visual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; GRAVITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STANDING; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CUES; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; VESTIBULE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033994641     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00814-4     Document Type: Article

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