An interventional study of FLIP SWITCHES "DOWN" IN WEIGHTLESSNESS in Healthy Volunteers, sponsored by University Hospital, Caen. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-08-01.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Caen · Not applicable and Interventional
The purpose of the study is to investigate spatial orientation in weightlessness as it manifests not in perception but rather in motor performance by direction and reaction time of flip switch.
Hypotheses are that flip switch:
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Subjects will be staff member of the team or of other teams participating in the parabolic flight campaign
Exclusion Criteria:
subjects will be asked to flip a series of switches into the "off" position. On Earth, the "off" position corresponds to "down" in all three reference frames: the visual allocentric, the non-visual allocentric as well as the egocentric frames. We expect that flip direction will be dominated by visual allocentric cues when those are available, will be delayed and more variable when confirmatory gravitational cues are absent, and will be biased towards the egocentric reference when tactile cues are added
Other: FLIP SWITCHES "DOWN" IN WEIGHTLESSNESS
The circular instrument panel that subjects will see into the cylindrical mask consists of one switch surrounded by a luminous ring (left part of the figure below). The switch can be flipped into any direction within the full 360° range. The switch provides no visual cues about "down", but the experimenter can add such cues by means of visually polarized labelling displayed on a circular black screen at the center of the panel (right part the figure below).
reaction time of flip switch measured with a chronometer
Time frame: baseline
Direction of flip switch measured with the circular instrument panel
Time frame: baseline
Plan to share: No
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