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Internal reference frame for the representation and storage of visual information during standing

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The roles of different afferent systems in the organization of an internal reference frame was studied. The task of visual comparison was performed by subjects under different experimental conditions: in the upright standing position and with the body or head inclined in the frontal plane and with the visual information about an external environment available or not available. It was shown that the dominant orientation of a referent stimulus (the minimum value of the mean error in the reproduction of the stimulus and the minimal variability of the error) was correlated with the body position, mainly the position of the head, more than with the gravitational or visual vertical, even when the visual information was available. This means that the proprioceptive information about the longitudinal axis of body, rather than gravity, is mainly used by the central nervous system for creating the internal representing of vertical during standing.

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Original Russian Text © M.I. Lipshits, 2011, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 36–41.

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Lipshits, M.I. Internal reference frame for the representation and storage of visual information during standing. Hum Physiol 37, 299–303 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119711030091

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