Multisensory processing in spatial orientation: An inverse probabilistic approach

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5365-5377

  Clemens, Ivar A H ^a   de Vrijer, Maaike ^a   Selen, Luc P J ^a   van Gisbergen, Jan A M ^a   Medendorp, W Pieter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TILT-TABLE TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955727362     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6472-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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