A Bayesian model of the disambiguation of gravitoinertial force by visual cues

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-290

  MacNeilage, Paul R ^a   Banks, Martin S ^a   Berger, Daniel R ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Bayesian estimation; Body orientation; Gravitoinertial force; Optic flow; Self motion; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; FORCE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISION;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VESTIBULE;

EID: 34247633609     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0792-0     Document Type: Article

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