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Human Sensory-Motor Adaptation to the Terrestrial Force Environment

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Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision

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Great emphasis has been placed in recent years on the importance of visual and vestibular contributions to the control and appreciation of posture. The emphasis on vision has come largely through Gibson’s seminal observations of the richness of the ambient optical array in providing information related to body orientation and movement (14,15,16) and through the studies of Dichgans and Brandt and their colleagues on the visual induction of apparent self-motion in stationary observers (10). The contribution of the vestibular system to spatial orientation has been generally recognized since Mach’s early observations implicating the semicircular canals in the detection of angular acceleration and the otolith organs in the reception of linear acceleration (58,59) and the systematic studies of Magnus (60,61) Graybiel (20,21,22,23,24) and others.

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Lackner, J.R. (1985). Human Sensory-Motor Adaptation to the Terrestrial Force Environment. In: Ingle, D.J., Jeannerod, M., Lee, D.N. (eds) Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision. NATO ASI Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5071-9_8

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