Interaction of posture and conscious perception of gravitational vertical and surface horizontal

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-332

  Wright, W Geoffrey ^a   Horak, Fay B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Sensory integration; Somatosensory; Surface orientation; Verticality; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; REHABILITATION CARE; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SITTING; TILTING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 34548594090     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0990-4     Document Type: Article

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