ArticleNPJ microgravity2021
Zero gravity induced by parabolic flight enhances automatic capture and weakens voluntary maintenance of visuospatial attention.
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- Gravity-awareness: a deep learning and LLM framework for predicting human adaptation to altered gravitational environments.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Microgravity Therapy as Treatment for Decelerated Aging and Successful Longevity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- taVNS as a potential countermeasure for neurocognitive decline in microgravity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Modulation of vestibular input by short-term head-down bed rest affects somatosensory perception: implications for space missions.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- Neuropsychological considerations for long-duration deep spaceflight.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Navigation strategies in patients with vestibular loss tested in a virtual reality T-maze.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Orienting attention in the space around us is a fundamental prerequisite for willed actions. On Earth, at 1 g, orienting attention requires the integration of vestibular signals and vision, although the specific vestibular contribution to voluntary and automatic components of visuospatial attention remains largely unknown. Here, we show that unweighting of the otolith organ in zero gravity during parabolic flight, selectively enhances stimulus-driven capture of automatic visuospatial attention, while weakening voluntary maintenance of covert attention. These findings, besides advancing our comprehension of the basic influence of the vestibular function on voluntary and automatic components of visuospatial attention, may have operational implications for the identification of effective countermeasures to be applied in forthcoming human deep space exploration and habitation, and on Earth, for patients' rehabilitation.
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