Visual perception, psychomotor performance, and complex motor performance during an overnight air refueling simulated flight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 7 II, 2005, Pages

  Russo, Michael B ^a   Kendall, Athena P ^b   Johnson, Dagny E ^b   Sing, Helen C ^b   Thorne, David R ^b   Escolas, Sandra M ^b   Santiago, Saul ^c   Holland, Dwight A ^d,e   Hall, Stanley W ^b   Redmond, Daniel P ^b  

^a U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c US Air Force Office of Scientific Research   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial refueling; Aerospace human factors; Fatigue; Lapses; Psychomotor vigilance; Sleep deprivation; Visual attention; Visual neglect; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTOR SKILLS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 21644481108     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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