Short Title:
SM Ocular Alignment-Parabolic
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Health Countermeasures
Funding Status:
Active - Currently funded and in progress
Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
1. Evaluate modifications that permit use of our tablet-computer system in ambient lighting (current version requires darkness to eliminate binocular alignment cues).
2. Assess binocular alignment (vertical and torsional skew) in different g levels of parabolic flight.
3. Determine the nature of the function that relates the sensorimotor response of binocular alignment to instantaneous g level: continuous (with what slope) or piecewise-linear (with a threshold).
Ground Analog Resources
Ground-Based Flight Analogs
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Number of Subjects
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10
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
This task will provide information on binocular alignment as a measure of otolith asymmetry – more specifically as a measure of the neural compensation for asymmetry, which changes as a function of g level.
Internal Customers:
None
External Customers:
None