Modern method and instrument for measuring psychic performance.
This paper shows that cortical processing of information quantity can be given in bits, while speed of information processing can be given in bit/sec; therefore the information processing ability can be denoted in algebraical expression. Changes of emotional tension can be objectified by galvanic skin reflex and pulse reaction. This method and device is suitable to measure psychic state of space station personnel and to predict psychic activity.
Hideg
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Intercosmos Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Remes
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Bognar
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Agoston
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D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008606:Mental Processes; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011674:Pulse; D011930:Reaction Time; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014893:Weightlessness