title: Isolation, confinement, and sensory deprivation.
abstract: Long-duration space flight involves sensory monotony, isolation, and confinement. Obviously, data from other such environments are relevant to our concerns; and the application of the concept of arousal both to interpersonal relations and to task performance in space can point to appropriate selection, training, and spacecraft design features. In the context of space flight, all of these leads remain conjectural--simulation as well as laboratory research and initiation of long-duration flights will be the crucial test of the hypotheses.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers--The State University, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Suedfeld
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D001143:Arousal; D018480:Astronauts / Q000523:psychology; D020378:Confined Spaces; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology*; D013026:Space Flight; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis