Modeling direction discrimination thresholds for yaw rotations around an earth-vertical axis for arbitrary motion profiles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-99

  Soyka, Florian ^a   Giordano, Paolo Robuffo ^a   Barnett Cowan, Michael ^a,b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Model; Psychophysics; Rotation; Self motion; Semi circular canals; Threshold; Transfer functions; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862771857     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3120-x     Document Type: Article

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