Response linearity of alert monkey non-eye movement vestibular nucleus neurons during sinusoidal yaw rotation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1388-1397

  Newlands, Shawn D ^a,b   Lin, Nan ^a,c   Wei, Min ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; VISION, OCULAR; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70349287613     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90914.2008     Document Type: Article

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