Vestibular system: The many facets of a multimodal sense

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue , 2008, Pages 125-150

  Angelaki, Dora E ^a   Cullen, Kathleen E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computation; Corollary discharge; Multisensory; Navigation; Reference frame; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 48249103497     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.31.060407.125555     Document Type: Review

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