PTS performance by flight- and control-group macaques.
A total of 25 young monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained with the Psychomotor Test System, a package of software tasks and computer hardware developed for spaceflight research with nonhuman primates. Two flight monkeys and two control monkeys were selected from this pool and performed a psychomotor task before and after the Bion 11 flight or a ground-control period. Monkeys from both groups showed significant disruption in performance after the 14-day flight or simulation (plus one anesthetized day of biopsies and other tests), and this disruption appeared to be magnified for the flight animal.
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Sonny Carter Life Sciences Laboratory, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. dwashburn@gsu.edu
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Richardson
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Shlyk
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D013026:Space Flight; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018910:Video Games; D014893:Weightlessness