Role of gravity-based information on the orientation and localization of the perceived body midline

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 504-509

  Ceyte, Hadrien ^a,b   Cian, Corinne ^a   Nougier, Vincent ^b   Olivier, Isabelle ^b   Trousselard, Marion ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Body midline; Localization; Orientation; Otolithic cues; Tactile cues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 33845770800     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0764-4     Document Type: Article

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