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This study investigates the role of vision for the responses to continuous pseudorandom support surface translations in the body sagittal plane in three visual conditions: with the eyes closed (EC), in stroboscopic illumination (EO\/SI; only visual position information) and with eyes open in continuous illumination (EO\/CI; position and velocity information) with the room as static visual scene (or the interior of a moving cabin, in some of the trials). In the frequency spectrum of the translation stimulus we distinguished on the basis of the response patterns between a low-frequency, mid-frequency, and high-frequency range (LFR: 0.0165-0.14 Hz; MFR: 0.15\u20130.57 Hz; HFR: 0.58\u20132.46 Hz). With EC, subjects\u2019 mean sway response gain was very low in the LFR. On average it increased with EO\/SI (although not to a significant degree <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.078) and more so with EO\/CI (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 10<jats:sup>\u22126<\/jats:sup>). In contrast, the average gain in the MFR decreased from EC to EO\/SI (although not to a significant degree, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.548) and further to EO\/CI (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0002). In the HFR, all three visual conditions produced, similarly, high gain levels. A single inverted pendulum (SIP) model controlling center of mass (COM) balancing about the ankle joints formally described the EC response as being strongly shaped by a resonance phenomenon arising primarily from the control\u2019s proprioceptive feedback loop. The effect of adding visual information in these simulations lies in a reduction of the resonance, similar as in the experiments. 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