Vestibular nuclei and cerebellum put visual gravitational motion in context

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1969-1982

  Miller, William L ^a,b   Maffei, Vincenzo ^a   Bosco, Gianfranco ^a   Iosa, Marco ^a   Zago, Myrka ^a   Macaluso, Emiliano ^a   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249106075     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00889.2007     Document Type: Article

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