Vestibular perception and navigation in the congenitally blind

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4341-4356

  Seemungal, Barry M ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^b   Gresty, Michael A ^a   Bronstein, Adolfo M ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSATION; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447542841     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01321.2006     Document Type: Article

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