The assessment of subjective visual vertical: Comparison of two psychophysical paradigms and age-related performance

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-122

  Baccini, Marco ^a,e   Paci, Matteo ^b   Del Colletto, Mattia ^c   Ravenni, Michele ^c   Baldassi, Stefano ^c,d  

^a Motion Analysis Laboratory   (Italy)

^b Prato Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Piero Palagi Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Psychometrics testing; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893547988     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0551-9     Document Type: Article

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