Clearly misleading illusions only appear when the vestibular input is of a nonconflicting nature. A number of experiments with blind goldfish were conducted since the vestibular system of the goldfish is homologous in many respects to that of man. Inertial stimuli were given by linear acceleration of the entire aquarium with the fish in it. A high-speed movie camera and three-axis accelerometers were used to record the fish responses. It was found that fish, if subjected to horizontal linear acceleration, behave as if the moving force acting on the otoliths were a gravitational force component and not an inertial reacting force.
Illusory sensations in aircraft flight and weightlessness
1973-06-01
Sonstige
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Weightlessness and space flight
Engineering Index Backfile | 1959
|Europäisches Patentamt | 2019
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