The Relationship Between Habituation to Vestibular Stimulation and Vigilance: Individual Differences and Subsidiary Problems,
Abstract
It has been shown that a subject's mental state is an important variable when recording vestibular nystagmus. This experiment is in three parts. In the first part the relationship of one form of mental work (vigilance scored in percent correct) to vestibular nystagmus habituation and eye movement phase relationships recorded during prolonged cyclic oscillation was studied. In the second part individual differences (personality, hours sleep, etc.) were related to vigilance performance and nystagmus habituation. In the third part the interaction of subject variables with vigilance tasks of differing complexity is reported. In addition, methodological studies are appended to the main body of this monograph. These include: (1) a bibliography and experiments concerning effects of luminance on electro oculographic potentials; (2) normative data for a vigilance task; (3) correlations between personality (extraversion, field independence) and success in aviation training and (4) reliability and validity of a scoring method for nystagmus habituation. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 03, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0749352
Entities
People
- Robert S. Kennedy
Organizations
- Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory