Vestibulo-ocular Interactions with Body Tilt: Gender Differences and Afferent -efferent Interplay
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This dissertation investigated the importance of information from various sensory receptors on the perception of self-orientation. In five experiments, we systematically manipulated the relative orientation between the gravitational inertial forces and the
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