"Critical periods" in vestibular development or adaptation of gravity sensory systems to altered gravitational conditions?

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-174

  Horn, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY BUILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FISH; GRAVITY; MODULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; ISS PROJECT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; GRAVITY, ALTERED; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE MOTION SICKNESS; VESTIBULE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

AMPHIBIA; OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 2942707691     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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