Meanings
- not comparablenatural sciencesRelating to the inertial effects of gravity.
The separate and combined influences of otolith and nonotolith sensory inputs upon perception of the oculogravic illusion were investigated by manipulating the visual and gravitoinertial force environments.
1967, Ashton Graybiel, The Effect of Water Immersion on Perception of the Oculogravic Illusion in Normal and Labyrinthine-defective Subjects1 more example
It has been shown that imposed accelerations above 0.2 Hz are usually perceived as translation of self through space, whereas imposed accelerations below that value are usually perceived as a change in direction of the gravitoinertial acceleration vector, i.e., tilt of self with respect to the assumed gravity vertical [38 ].
2015 December 15, “Relationship between Spectral Characteristics of Spontaneous Postural Sway and Motion Sickness Susceptibility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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