Using sensory weighting to model the influence of canal, otolith and visual cues on spatial orientation and eye movements

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-230

  Zupan, L H ^a   Merfeld, D M ^a   Darlot, C ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DARKNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VESTIBULE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

DARKNESS; EYE MOVEMENTS; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036490128     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-001-0290-1     Document Type: Article

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