The optokinetic cervico reflex during simulated helicopter flight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1166-1173

  Braithwaite, Malcolm G ^a,b   Beal, Kathleen G ^a   Alvarez, Eduardo A ^a   Jones, Heber D ^a   Estrada, Arthur ^a  

^a U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Headquarters Director Army Aviation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HEAD POSITION; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISIBILITY; VISUAL REFLEX;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; CUES; DARKNESS; EYEGLASSES; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NECK; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; REFLEX; SENSATION DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WEATHER;

EID: 0031725245     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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