The Dream is Alive!

Collin County Community College ^ | Jan 1, 2003 | Cindi Warnstaff, Meade Brooks

[Young Werther]

PROJECT OVERVIEW ABSTRACT

Electrical activity emanating from the brain is displayed in the form of four types of brainwaves that are associated with specific cognitive functions and that vary in level of activity. The team’s experiment will measure a test subject’s level of brainwave activity while performing a variety of tasks in a virtual reality environment in zero-gravity. By immersing the test subject in a virtual reality simulation, the team will be able to duplicate many of the cognitive and motor functions required of astronauts working in space. Effects of a short-term microgravity environment, such as vertigo and spatial disorientation, impact the way the brain interprets and processes sensory information. As a result, brainwave activity in a microgravity environment may differ from that in a normal gravity environment and may be linked to specific tasks or cognitive functions.

[Young Werther]

The Team Leader, Cindi Warnstaff, spoke at our NSS of North Texas cluba bout her first flight on the "Comet". They boldly go....... and we wish them good luck and happy landings!

[facedown]

Well it is a cool plane.

[buccaneer]

that is a very costly way to about things.a float tank is much more effective!

[buccaneer]

that is a very costly way to go about things.a float tank is much more effective!

[lavaroise]

NOpe, float tanks do not have the same sensation as zero gravity in hair. People virtualy never suffer from vertigo when underwater, but they do suffer tremendously from disorientation, vertigo and even motion sickness in outer space. Cognitive abilities are tremendously reduced.