Spinning versus wobbling: How the brain solves a geometry problem

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8093-8101

  Laurens, Jean ^a   Strauman, Dominik ^a   Hess, Bernhard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; INNER EAR; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPINNING HEAD MOVEMENT; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; WOBBLING HEAD MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION;

EID: 79958063704     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5900-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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