Effects of rotation on somatogravic illusions: Can using daylight visual scenes in the advanced spatial disorientation demonstrator help break the illusion?

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 59-65

  Lessard, Charles S ^a   Matthews, Roger ^b   Yauch, David ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ADVANCED SPATIAL DISORIENTATION DEMONSTRATION (ASDD); SOMATOGRAVIC ILLUSIONS;

AVIATION MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; AVIATION; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUNLIGHT; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ACCELERATION; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFUSION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; ROTATION; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SPACE PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034102163     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.827407     Document Type: Article

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