Human discrimination of rotational velocities

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-20

  Mallery, Robert M ^a   Olomu, Osarenoma U ^a   Uchanski, Rosalie M ^a   Militchin, Valentin A ^a   Hullar, Timothy E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination threshold; Human; Imbalance; Psychophysics; Semicircular canal; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HEARING LOSS; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956209777     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2288-1     Document Type: Article

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