Anticipating the effects of visual gravity during simulated self-motion: Estimates of time-to-passage along vertical and horizontal paths

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 579-586

  Indovina, Iole ^a,b   Maffei, Vincenzo ^a,b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gravity; Horizontal; Self motion; TTP; Vertical; Visual

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DECELERATION; FALLING; FEMALE; GRAVITY; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NOISE; OPTIC FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRAVEL; VELOCITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883456554     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3620-3     Document Type: Article

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