The perception of verticality and spatial orientation is a multifaceted process governed by the integration of visual, vestibular, proprioceptive and somatosensory cues. This complex sensory ...

The ability to use the relations between visible landmarks to locate nonvisible goals (allocentric spatial coding) underlies success on a variety of everyday spatial orientation problems. Little is ...

The rotating room facility of the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis University was designed for studying the influence of unusual force environments on human sensory-motor ...

Students perform a dance in the Spingold Theater while wearing homemade sensory augmentation devices as part of a project that explores how vibrational cues affect movement during dance. Vivekanand ...

A University of Toronto researcher has found that differences between men and women in determining spatial orientation may be the result of inner ear size. The study, published online in the journal ...

Polyplex formulated with plasmid DNA (pEGFP) and histidine-conjugated PEI via five-armed alkylamino siloxane linker groups efficiently expressed green fluorescent protein, attributed to optimal ligand ...

Our sense of direction tends to decline with age. In the scientific journal "Nature Communications", researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and experts from the USA ...