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Impacts on Cognitive Decay and Memory Recall During Long Duration Spaceflight

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Living and working in outer space introduces unique physiological, psychological, and psychosocial stressors to the human body. While most stressors are known and well researched, Long Duration Spaceflight creates additional and more worrisome stressors. This paper describes preparation and research plans for a 30-month repeated-measures, cognitive decay, and memory recall study utilizing ten practical space mission tasks performed by 32 astronaut-like subjects in an Isolation, Confined and Extreme (ICE) analogous environment.

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  1. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Terry Rector & James Casler

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    Curtis Cripe

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  2. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Z. Ahram

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management System, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

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Rector, T., Cripe, C., Casler, J. (2021). Impacts on Cognitive Decay and Memory Recall During Long Duration Spaceflight. In: Nazir, S., Ahram, T.Z., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80000-0_6

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