+Gz acceleration loss of consciousness: Time course of performance deficits with repeated experience

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-120

  Tripp, Lloyd D ^a,b   Warm, Joel S ^a   Matthews, Gerald ^a   Chiu, Peter ^a   Werchan, Paul ^b   Deaton, John E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHI SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSCIOUSNESS; GRAVITY-INDUCED LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (GLOC); IMPAIRMENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AVIATION; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OHIO; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEXAS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33646338888     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006776412144     Document Type: Article

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