Enhancing astronaut performance using sensorimotor adaptability training

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Bloomberg, Jacob J ^a   Peters, Brian T ^b   Cohen, Helen S ^c   Mulavara, Ajitkumar P ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Countermeasures; Motor learning; Plasticity; Spaceflight; Training

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COSMONAUT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAIT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TREADMILL TEST; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 84942924610     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00129     Document Type: Article

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