Contributions of visual and proprioceptive information to travelled distance estimation during changing sensory congruencies

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3277-3289

  Campos, Jennifer L ^a,b,c   Butler, John S ^a,d   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cue conflict; Distance estimation; Multisensory integration; Optic flow; Proprioception; Self motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; WALKING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912026012     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4011-0     Document Type: Article

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