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Effects of visual reference on adaptation to motion sickness and subjective responses evoked by graded cross-coupled angular accelerationsThree groups of 10 subjects each were exposed to stepwise increments of cross coupled angular accelerations in three visual modes: internal visual reference (IVR), external visual reference (EVR), and vision absent (VA). The subjects in the IVR condition required significantly greater amounts of stimulus exposure to neutralize their illusory subjective reactions. They also suffered a greater loss of well-being and a more marked incidence of motion sickness than did subjects in the EVR and VA conditions. The same 30 subjects were reexposed to the same graded cross coupled stimulation 1 week later. This time, however, all the subjects were tested under only the IVR condition. All three groups showed some positive transfer of adaptation, but only the IVR-IVR combination required significantly fewer head motions to achieve the same level of adaptation on the second occasion. Taken overall, however, the most efficient and least disturbing route to adaptation at the completion of the second test was via the VA-IVR combination.
Document ID
19740010650
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Reason, J. T.
(Leicester Univ.)
Diaz, E.
(Leicester Univ.)
Date Acquired
August 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1973
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Washington Fifth Symp. on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration
Subject Category
Biotechnology
Accession Number
74N18763
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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