Changes of visual vertical perception: A long-term sign of unilateral and bilateral vestibular loss

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2025-2037

  Lopez, Christophe ^a,b   Lacour, Michel ^a   Ahmadi, Abdessadek El ^c   Magnan, Jacques ^d   Borel, Liliane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Meni re's disease patients; Roll optokinetic stimulation; Spatial cognition; Spatial frames of reference; Unilateral vestibular neurotomy; Vestibular compensation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34247529126     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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