Dynamics of vestibular neurons during rotational motion in alert rhesus monkeys

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-101

  Dickman, J David ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central vestibular neurons; Response dynamics; Rhesus monkey; Rotation; Semicircular canal afferents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORY NERVE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; ROTATION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 1542345453     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1692-1     Document Type: Article

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