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  • Title: The influence of microgravity on memorized arm movements.
    Author: Berger M, Lechner-Steinleitner S, Struhal W, Gerstenbrand F, Koslovskaya IB.
    Journal: J Gravit Physiol; 2004 Jul; 11(2):P115-7. PubMed ID: 16235440.
    Abstract:
    To investigate sensory and motor functions in microgravity, goal-oriented arm movements were performed by 9 cosmonauts in weightlessness. The ability to reproduce predefined motor patterns was examined pre-, in-, and post-flight under two different paradigms: In a first test, the cosmonaut had to reproduce passively learned movements with eyes closed, while in the second test, the cosmonaut learned the pattern with eyes open. The different learning paradigms effected the metric parameters of the memorized stimulus pattern while the influence of the different gravity levels resulted in significant offsets and torsions of the reproduced figures. In comparing the inflight condition with preflight, intact proprioceptive afference seemed to play an important role for reproducing movements from motor short-time memory correctly.
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