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Vestibulo-Spinal Mechanisms

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Vestibular System Part 1: Basic Mechanisms

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1653,volume 6 / 1))

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Descriptive and analytical aspects of our knowledge of the vestibular system have changed considerably during the last decade as a result of a sudden interest being focused on the system and the fact that it has been the target of a steadily increasing number of experimental studies. Previously, only a small number of anatomists and physiologists were concerned with the vestibular system and, in comparison with the vigor by which other sensory systems were studied, one had the feeling that it was regarded as being of less significance to the welfare of the organism; some kind of exorbitant organ, frustratingly concealed and bioeconomically dispensable.

Submitted July 29, 1968.

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Gebnandt, B.E. (1974). Vestibulo-Spinal Mechanisms. In: Kornhuber, H.H. (eds) Vestibular System Part 1: Basic Mechanisms. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 6 / 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65942-3_13

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