Maintaining spatial body alignment on a rotating platform by means of active counter-circling: Role of vestibular and podokinesthetic afferents

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 504-518

  Diekmann, Volker ^a   Jürgens, Reinhart ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active turning; Models; Podokinesthetic afferents; Rotating platform; Spatial orientation; Stabilisation in space; Vestibular system; Vestibulo podokinesthetic interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ROTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VESTIBULE;

EID: 5644244419     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1921-2     Document Type: Article

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