General and special training of rhesus monkeys flown on Bion biosatellites.
Before flight, the flight pool monkeys were trained to experience spaceflight-type effects (diminished motor activity and confinement) and to perform eye-head-hand coordination and foot-pedal tasks. A battery of tests was used to select strong and highly adaptable animals as flight candidates. The animals with strong active defensive and exploratory reactions proved to be the best.
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RF SRC--Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness