Cognition Test Battery Performance Is Associated with Simulated 6df Spacecraft Docking Performance.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Environmental and operational stressors commonly encountered in spaceflight can affect astronaut cognitive performance. It is currently unclear how performance decrements on test batteries that assess individual cognitive domains translate to complex operational performance.METHODS: N 30 healthy adults (mean SD age 33.5 7.1 yr, range 2548 yr; 16 men) with demographic characteristics similar to astronauts performed all 10 tests of the Cognition test battery as well as a simulated 6 degrees-of-freedom (6df) spacecraft docking task 15 times. Performance on 60 Cognition outcome variables was rank-correlated with 6df docking performance individually as well as in models containing up to 12 predictors after accounting for sex, age, and study design effects.R

SUBMITTER: Basner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755107 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature