NDLI: Visual–manual tracking after long spaceflights

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Author	Kornilova, L. N. Glukhikh, D. O. Habarova, E. V. Naumov, I. A. Ekimovskiy, G. A. Pavlova, A. S.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This study presents the results of the pre- and postflight clinical and physiological examination (CPE) and scientific experiment “Sensory Adaptation-2” at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center, which involved 14 Russian cosmonauts, crewmembers of long-term international spaceflights ISS-28/29 to ISS 36/37, who were in microgravity from 159 to 195 days. The cosmonauts were aged 35–50 years. The studies were conducted twice before the spaceflight (the background), as well as on days R+1(2), R+4(5), and R+8(9) after landing. In the study of visual–manual tracking (VMT), eye movements were recorded by the electrooculography method (EOG), and hand movements were recorded by a joystick (the screen represented the current tilt angle of a joystick handle). The examinations were conducted using stimulation computer programs, were presented to an examined subject on the screen of the Sensomotor hardware–software complex. The examinations took place in the dialog mode and included the EOG calibration; VMT within ±10° on the screen with blank background (the smooth linear and sinusoidal movement of a point target with a frequency of 0.16 Hz in the vertical and horizontal directions). The study estimated the time, amplitude, and velocity characteristics of visual and manual tracking (VT and MT), including the effectiveness (ec) and gain (gc) coefficients as the ratios of the amplitude and velocity of eye/hand movements to the amplitude and velocity of the visual stimulus. The study of the vestibular function (VF) was performed before and after the spaceflight using videooculography. The static torsion otolith–cervical–ocular reflex (OCOR), dynamic vestibular–cervical–ocular reactions (VCOR), vestibular reactivity, and spontaneous eye movements were assessed. The study of VF in the first postflight days has shown a sharp decrease (up to its complete absence) of static vestibular excitability accompanied by the increased dynamic reactivity of the vestibular system. The study of VTM in the first postflight days has shown a significant decrease in the ec and gc of VT as well as correlations between the parameters of VT and MT and between the parameters of VF and VT and has not found a correlation between the parameters of VF and MT. The conditions of the spaceflight have been revealed to affect the accuracy of VT more strongly than the accuracy of MT. A complete return of the characteristics of VMT and VF to the baseline was observed on R+8(9) days after the spaceflight.
Starting Page	301
Ending Page	311
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621197
Journal	Human Physiology
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	16083164
Language	English
Publisher	Pleiades Publishing
Publisher Date	2016-06-28
Publisher Place	Moscow
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	weightlessness (microgravity) long-term spaceflight visual-manual tracking vestibular function Life Sciences Human Physiology Biomedicine general
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physiology Physiology (medical)

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