When up is down in 0g: How gravity sensing affects the timing of interceptive actions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1969-1973

  Senot, Patrice ^a   Zago, Myrka ^b   le Séac'h, Anne ^a   Zaoui, Mohammed ^a   Berthoz, Alain ^a   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^b,c   McIntyre, Joseph ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; WEIGHTLESSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857018328     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3886-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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