Release from masking in virtual auditory space during sustained positive acceleration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 536-542

  Arrabito, G Robert ^a   Cheung, Bob ^a   Crabtree, R B ^a   Mcfadden, S M ^a  

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

Author keywords

3 D audio display; Auditory thresholds; Sustained positive acceleration

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034006198     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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