Alexander's law during high-acceleration head rotations in humans

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 239-243

  Anagnostou, Evangelos ^a   Heimberger, Joachim ^b   Sklavos, Sokratis ^a   Anastasopoulos, Dimitri ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Department of Physiology and Clinical Neurophysiology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Alexander's law; gain modulation; head impulses; vestibular neuritis; vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REWARD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS;

EID: 79952986270     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283451769     Document Type: Article

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