The vestibular system: Multimodal integration and encoding of self-motion for motor control

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 185-196

  Cullen, Kathleen E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BODY EQUILIBRIUM; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FLOCCULAR TARGET NEURON; GAZE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SACCULUS; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84857686668     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.12.001     Document Type: Review

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