The brain weights body-based cues higher than vision when estimating walked distances

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1889-1898

  Campos, Jennifer L ^a,b,c   Byrne, Patrick ^a,c   Sun, Hong Jin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cue weighting; Distance estimation; Human; Locomotion; Multimodal integration; Optic flow; Real world

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN WEIGHT; COMPUTER MODEL; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; TRAVEL; VISION; WALKING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; VESTIBULE; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952601818     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07212.x     Document Type: Article

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