Changes in the vertical size of a three-dimensional object drawn in weightlessness by astronauts

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 37-40

  Lathan, Corinna ^a   Wang, Zuyi ^a   Clément, Gilles ^b  

^a Catholic University of America   (United States)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Gravity; Necker cube; Reference frame; Spatial orientation; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMONAUT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTRONAUTS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SIZE PERCEPTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0034568472     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01584-6     Document Type: Article

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