Localization of the subjective vertical during roll, pitch, and recumbent yaw body tilt

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 364-373

  Bortolami, Simone B ^a   Pierobon, Alberto ^a   DiZio, Paul ^a   Lackner, James R ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Haptic vertical; Otolith; Pitch tilt; Recumbent yaw tilt; Roll tilt; Sensory illusions; Somatosensation; Spatial orientation; Subjective vertical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BODY TILT; COMPUTER MODEL; EVALUATION; GRAVITY; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PITCH TILT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECUMBENCY; RECUMBENT YAW TILT; REFERENCE VALUE; ROLL TILT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; TILTING; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REFLEX;

EID: 33747093136     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0385-y     Document Type: Article

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