Cognitive impairment by spatial disorientation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-111

  Gresty, Michael Andrew ^a   Golding, John Foster ^a,b   Le, Huy ^a   Nightingale, Kelly ^b  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Coriolis; Optokinetic; Spatial disorientation; Vection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORIOLIS PHENOMENON; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALAISE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; COGNITION; CORIOLIS FORCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 38649094895     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2143.2008     Document Type: Article

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