Coriolis effects and motion sickness modelling

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Coriolis effects are notorious in relation to disorientation and motion sickness in aircrew. A review is provided of experimental data on these Coriolis effects, including the modulatory effects of adding visual or somatosensory rotatory motion information. A vector analysis of the consequences of head movements during somatosensory, visual and/or vestibular rotatory motion stimulation revealed that the more the sensed angular velocity vector after the head movements is aligned with the gravito-inertial force vector, the less nauseating effects are experienced. It is demonstrated that this is a special case of the Subjective Vertical conflict theory on motion sickness which assumes that motion sickness may be provoked if a discrepancy is detected between the subjective vertical and the sensed vertical as determined on the basis of incoming sensory information.
TNO Identifier
9238
Source
Brain Research Bulletin, 47(5), pp. 543 - 549.
Pages
543 - 549
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