Acceleration effects on manual performance with isometric and displacement joysticks

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 990-994

  Guardiera, Simon ^a   Bock, Otmar ^a   Pongratz, Hans ^b   Krause, Wolfgang ^b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b German Air Force ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Aircraft control; Centrifuge; Dual task; Force production; Gravity; High G; Hypergravity; Sensorimotor control

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CENTRIFUGATION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34848897205     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2054.2007     Document Type: Article

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