Pointing at memorized targets during prolonged microgravity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-103

  Watt, D G D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPACE FLIGHT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 00-00; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 16-10; NASA PROGRAM FLIGHT; NASA PROGRAM SPACE PHYSIOLOGY AND COUNTERMEASURES; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-58 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0031013364     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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