Motor performance and motor learning in sustained +3 Gz acceleration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 852-859

  Guardiera, Simon ^a   Schneider, Stefan ^a   Noppe, Alexandra ^a   Strüder, Heiko K ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; High G; Hyper G; Hypergravity; Manual performance; Pursuit tracking; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULATION;

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISION;

EID: 51149122824     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2306.2008     Document Type: Article

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