Relationship of CogScreen-AE to flight simulator performance and pilot age

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 373-380

  Taylor, Joy L ^a,c   O'Hara, Ruth ^b   Mumenthaler, Martin S ^b   Yesavage, Jerome A ^a,b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA Palo Alto Hlth Care Syst (151Y)   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerospace medicine; Aging relationship; Cognitive assessment; CogScreen AE; Flight simulator performance; Pilot age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AIRPLANE PILOT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGED; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034028780     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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