Perception of angular displacement without landmarks: Evidence for Bayesian fusion of vestibular, optokinetic, podokinesthetic, and cognitive information

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 528-543

  Jürgens, Reinhart ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Bottom up information; Cognitive bias; Multisensory convergence; Optokinetic stimulation; Perception of angular displacement; Podokinesthetic stimulation; Sensory fusion; Top down information; Vestibular stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; COGNITION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RELIABILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STANDING; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PERCEPTION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULE; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 33749027462     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0486-7     Document Type: Article

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