Haptic subjective vertical shows context dependence: Task and vision play a role during dynamic tilt stimulation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1004, Issue , 2003, Pages 531-535

  Wright, William Geoffrey ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context dependence; Dynamic roll tilt; Subjective vertical

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 1942534511     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1303.069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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