Systematic Biases in Human Heading Estimation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Cuturi, Luigi F ^a,b   MacNeilage, Paul R ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; VESTIBULAR HEADING ESTIMATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL HEADING ESTIMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874074878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056862     Document Type: Article

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