Abstract
Evidence is presented to show that despite their effectiveness in producing motion sickness the actual frequencies and accelerations involved in ship motion are rather low. It is suggested that the disparity is due to the fact that ship motion is such as to cause an asynchrony between signals from the labyrinth and those from other motion receptors.
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Morales, M.F. Asynchrony of labyrinthine receptors as a physical factor in motion sickness. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 8, 147–157 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478449
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