Neuronal detection thresholds during vestibular compensation: Contributions of response variability and sensory substitution

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1565-1580

  Jamali, Mohsen ^a   Mitchell, Diana E ^a   Dale, Alexis ^a   Carriot, Jerome ^a   Sadeghi, Soroush G ^a,b   Cullen, Kathleen E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84897406888     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.267534     Document Type: Article

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