Vestibular suppression during space flight

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 13, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 363-376

  Watt, Douglas ^a   Lefebvre, Luc ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gaze stability; Motion sickness; Space flight; Vestibular suppression; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION SICKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-78 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE MOTION SICKNESS; VESTIBULE;

EID: 2342599740     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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