Visual contribution to postural stability: Interaction between target fixation or tracking and static or dynamic large-field stimulus

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-41

  Laurens, J ^a   Awai, L ^a,b   Bockisch, C J ^a   Hegemann, S ^a   van Hedel, H J A ^c   Dietz, V ^c   Straumann, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body sway; Eye movements; Posture; Retinal flow; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURAL BALANCE;

EID: 73349112855     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.08.241     Document Type: Article

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