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SUBMITTER: Chen X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889634 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Xiaodong X DeAngelis Gregory C GC Angelaki Dora E DE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180319 14
By systematically manipulating head position relative to the body and eye position relative to the head, previous studies have shown that vestibular tuning curves of neurons in the ventral intraparietal (VIP) area remain invariant when expressed in body-/world-centered coordinates. However, body orientation relative to the world was not manipulated; thus, an egocentric, body-centered representation could not be distinguished from an allocentric, world-centered reference frame. We manipulated the ...[more]