A drop-tower experiment to determine the threshold of gravity for inducing motion sickness in fish

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 1592-1597

  Anken, R H ^a   Hilbig, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inner ear; Otolith; Space motion sickness; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BRAIN; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPACE FLIGHT; VIDEO RECORDING;

INNER EAR; OTOLITH; SPCE MOTION SICKNESS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEMS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 7444229914     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.01.023     Document Type: Article

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