Performance of a simple aiming task in hypergravity: I. Overall accuracy

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-132

  Bock, Otmar ^a,c   Arnold, Karin E ^a   Cheung, Bob S K ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEF AND CIV INST OF ENVIRON MED   (Canada)

^c Institute for Physiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERFORMANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030025271     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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