Gravity influences the visual representation of object tilt in parietal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 14170-14180

  Rosenberg, Ari ^a   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Gravity; Multisensory; Parietal cortex; Spatial pose; Visual orientation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BODY POSTURE; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; GRAVITY; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TUNING CURVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; GRAVITATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84908077703     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2030-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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