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SUBMITTER: Gu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889617 | biostudies-other | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gu Yong Y Fetsch Christopher R CR Adeyemo Babatunde B Deangelis Gregory C GC Angelaki Dora E DE
Neuron 20100501 4
Humans and monkeys use both vestibular and visual motion (optic flow) cues to discriminate their direction of self-motion during navigation. A striking property of heading perception from optic flow is that discrimination is most precise when subjects judge small variations in heading around straight ahead, whereas thresholds rise precipitously when subjects judge heading around an eccentric reference. We show that vestibular heading discrimination thresholds in both humans and macaques also sho ...[more]