Accession Number:

AD0744234

Title:

Effects of Backscatter of Brief High Intensity Light on Physiological Responses of Instrument-Rated Pilots and Non-Pilots,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

OKLAHOMA UNIV HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER OKLAHOMA CITY

Personal Author(s):

• Zeiner,Arthur R.
• Brecher,Gerhard A.

Report Date:

1972-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

Thirty-nine human subjects were exposed to reptitive backscatter light stimulation off a white wall or fog from a Grimes capacitance discharge airplane anticollision light flashing at 1.27 Hertz. Both tonic light stimulus absent and phasic light stimulus present stimulus-bound occipital EEG, heart rate, respiration, skin potentials, and eyeblinks were recorded. The results suggest that, although the flashing anticollision light induces changes in physiological measures which are resistant to habituation, these changes do not extend to the induction of nausea. Author

Descriptors:

• (*PILOTS
• *LIGHT PULSES)
• (*AVIATION MEDICINE
• LIGHT PULSES)
• BACKSCATTERING
• VISUAL PERCEPTION
• STIMULATION(PHYSIOLOGY)

Subject Categories:

• Stress Physiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE