Neurons compute internal models of the physical laws of motion

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6999, 2004, Pages 560-564

  Angelaki, Dora E ^a   Shaikh, Aasef G ^a   Green, Andrea M ^a   Dickman, J David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

INERTIAL MOTION DETECTION; LAWS OF MOTION;

NEUROLOGY;

PHYSICS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN STEM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; INNER EAR; MODEL; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBELLUM; CYTOLOGY; MACACA; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NEURONS;

EID: 3242882044     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02754     Document Type: Article

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