Touch down: The effect of artificial touch cues on orientation in microgravity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 404, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 78-82

  van Erp, Jan B F ^a   van Veen, Hendrik A H C ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microgravity; Sensory integration; Sensory weighting; Spatial orientation; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROGRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TECHNOLOGY; TOUCH; TRUNK; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VIBRATION SENSE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

CUES; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 33745920208     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.05.060     Document Type: Article

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