Changed visuomotor transformations during and after prolonged microgravity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 378-390

  Sangals, Jörg ^a   Heuer, Herbert ^b   Manzey, Dietrich ^c   Lorenz, Bernd ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft /R   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Human; Manual tracking; Microgravity; Spaceflight; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0032751529     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050906     Document Type: Article

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