title: PTS performance by flight- and control-group macaques.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sonny Carter Life Sciences Laboratory, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. dwashburn@gsu.edu
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Washburn
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rumbaugh
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gulledge
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Shlyk
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Vasilieva
mesh_terms: 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