Mental rotation of a letter, hand and complex scene in microgravity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 533, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-59

  Dalecki, Marc ^a   Dern, Sebastian ^a   Steinberg, Fabian ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Astronauts; Egocentric; Error rate; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION; MENTAL TASK; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ROTATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871708763     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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