Relations Between Motion Sickness Susceptibility, the Spiral After‐effect and Loudness Estimation

This paper reports two experiments designed to elucidate those sensory characteristics which influence motion sickness susceptibility. In the first, a positive and significant correlation was obtained between the score derived from a biographical motion sickness questionnaire (MSQ) and the rate at which spiral after‐effect persistence increased as a logarithmic function of the induction period (SAE slope score). A positive but insignificant relation was also found between the MSQ score and the slope of the sensation cupulogram. The second experiment revealed a significant concordance between the MSQ score, the SAE slope score and the slope of the psychophysical function describing individual loudness estimates of a 1000 c/s tone. The notion of ‘receptivity’ was advanced to account for these findings

Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Concordance · Loudness · Mathematical analysis · Motion (physics) · Motion sickness · Physics · Psychiatry · Sensation · Spiral (railway) · Statistics · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts · Visual perception and processing mechanisms