Reinhard Hilbig, Albert Gollhofer, Otmar Bock

Sensory Motor and Behavioral Research in Space

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.

The results are not only of importance to health and performance of astronauts during their space mission, but also impact people on Earth, especially in the ageing societies of the Western countries.

The space environment produces mismatches between sensory inputs from canal and otolith afferents which are difficult to study in humans, and are therefore studied in the fish model. Brain and vestibular organ of fish are analyzed under altered gravitational conditions; particularly weightlessness and structural failures as well as malfunctions in different inner ear components are investigated and discussed.
The book is aiming at students, engineers and scientists in space and aging research, as well as psychology, neurosciences and sensorymotor research.

Produktdetails

• SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-68200-6
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9783319682006
• ISBN-10: 3319682008
• Artikelnr.: 48936887

Autorenporträt

Reinhard Hilbig is retired professor of Zoology at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He took examination Philosophicum at the Westfäliche Wilhems University in Münster and completes his Staatsexamen and PhD at the University of Hohenheim. Reinhard Hilbig got his "venia legendi" for Zoology from the University of Hohenheim. His research was addressed to developmental neuroscience especially to the inner ear of lower vertebrates (fish) and its malformations, biomineralization, behavior and as well to spatial orientation in different gravitational environments. He had served as principal investigator in two space flight experiments and several parabolic flight and sounding rocket campaigns.
Prof. Dr. Albert Gollhofer is the director of the department of Sports and Sportscience at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. He studied Physics and physical education in Freiburg and his research is focused on neuromuscular control and functional adaptat

ions to training. During his scientific career at the University in Stuttgart and in Freiburg he supervised a large number of phD students in physical education. He served as a president of the European College of Sport Science and of the German Society of Biomechanics and published more than 180 international papers and several books on biomechanics, motor control and learning.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Foreword.- 1. Posture and Locomotion.- 2. Spatially Oriented Behaviour.- 3. Cognitive and Psychomotor Performance.- 4. Impact of Micro- and Hyper-Gravity on Neurovestibu-lar Issues of Fish.