Ways to investigate vestibular contributions to cognitive processes

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Palla, Antonella ^a   Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caloric vestibular stimulation; Cognitive neuroscience; Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Natural vestibular stimulation

Indexed keywords

CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; COGNITION; ENDOLYMPH; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HUMAN; NOTE; OTOLITH; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 84901344535     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00040     Document Type: Note

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