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Neurologie dans l’espace
« Les chercheurs veulent savoir comment le cerveau s’y prend pour effectuer des tâches complexes, comme attraper une balle en vol ou remplir un verre : comment la gravité nous aide-t-elle à calculer quel mouvement faire et où déplacer la main au bon moment ? La réalité virtuelle en impesanteur offre aux scientifiques la possibilité de tester une multitude de scénarii ciblés et ainsi plonger dans les secrets de notre cerveau… »
Hanging out
“Researchers are trying to find out how people's brains manage complex tasks like catching a ball or frisbee or pouring a glass of water. How does gravity help our brains calculate where and how to move our hands to be at the exact place at the right time? Running the Grasp experiment in weightlessness but also in virtual reality offers researchers on Earth many possibilities to fine-tune scenarios and really get to the bottom of how our brain works.”
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L’expérience GRASP : un casque de réalité virtuelle pour tester les reactions du cerveau à des repères visuels en microgravité.
The GRASP experiment : a VR headset tests how the brain interprets visual cues without gravity.
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