Impact of vertigo and spatial disorientation on concurrent cognitive tasks

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1164, Issue , 2009, Pages 263-267

  Gresty, Michael Andrew ^a   Golding, John Foster ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dizziness; Individual differences; Multitasking; Spatial orientation; Spatial tasks; Verbal tasks; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORIOLIS PHENOMENON; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 66149128737     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03744.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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