QUANTIFICATION OF THE HUMAN NYSTAGMIC RESPONSE TO ANGULAR ACCELERATION. PREDICTION FORMULAE AND NOMOGRAPH,

Abstract

Five young adult men with normal labyrinthine function were stimulated by a series of graded angular accelerations, during which they carried out particular mental tasks. Each subject was seated at the center of rotation, eyes open, and with head fixed with a bite board so that the lateral canals were in the horizontal plane of rotation. The subject was enclosed in a capsule which provided a totally dark environment and shielded him from wind currents. Low-level masking noise and vibration prevented detection of extraneous cues related to angular velocity. Ocular nystagmus was analyzed second-by-second and an empirical equation fitted to the data. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 1965
Accession Number
AD0467138

Entities

People

  • G. H. Crampton
  • J. H. Brown

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Acceleration
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Mathematics
  • Motion
  • Nomographs
  • Nystagmus
  • Physical Properties
  • Rotation
  • Vibration

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.