The law of the canals and postural clinic*
Gagey, Pierre-Marie
Abstract
An hypothesis on the construction of the coherence of the perception of space, visual and proprioceptive, through the three afferents, retinal, oculomotor and canalicular, allows us to offer a way to deconstruct this consistency by an optical prism. And this deconstruction exhibits the organization between space perception and regulation of the postural tonic activity.
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