Chapter 9

Visual–vestibular interactions

Aasef G. Shaikh 1 , David S. Zee 2 , Jeffrey Taube 3 , and Amir Kheradmand 2       1 Department of Neurology, University Hospitals, Cleveland VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States      2 Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States      3 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

Abstract

The human brain uses information from various sensory systems to gauge orientation of the body with respect to the external environment. Our perception of space is based on the image of the external world as registered by various senses and continuously updated and stabilized ...

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