Confinement has no effect on visual space perception: The results of the Mars-500 experiment
| Autor: | Radovan Šikl, Michal Šimeček |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Visual space Mars Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sample (statistics) Language and Linguistics Judgment Perception Stress (linguistics) Humans media_common Distance Perception Perspective (graphical) Mars Exploration Program Space Flight Sensory Systems Subjective constancy Social Isolation Space Perception Change blindness Housing Astronauts Regression Analysis Psychology Social psychology Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Attention, perceptionpsychophysics. 76(2) |
| ISSN: | 1943-393X |
| Popis: | People confined to a closed space live in a visual environment that differs from a natural open-space environment in several respects. The view is restricted to no more than a few meters, and nearby objects cannot be perceived relative to the position of a horizon. Thus, one might expect to find changes in visual space perception as a consequence of the prolonged experience of confinement. The subjects in our experimental study were participants of the Mars-500 project and spent nearly a year and a half isolated from the outside world during a simulated mission to Mars. The participants were presented with a battery of computer-based psychophysical tests examining their performance on various 3-D perception tasks, and we monitored changes in their perceptual performance throughout their confinement. Contrary to our expectations, no serious effect of the confinement on the crewmembers’ 3-D perception was observed in any experiment. Several interpretations of these findings are discussed, including the possibilities that (1) the crewmembers’ 3-D perception really did not change significantly, (2) changes in 3-D perception were manifested in the precision rather than the accuracy of perceptual judgments, and/or (3) the experimental conditions and the group sample were problematic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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