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. 2022 Aug 6;76(5):979–994. doi: 10.1177/17470218221113935

Table 1.

A representative sample of spaceflight studies reporting effects of altered gravity on the sensorimotor, cognitive, and socio-affective domains.

Reference Function Non-terrestrial gravity methods Sample size Estimated effect size
Sensorimotor domain
de Witt et al. (2010) Locomotion Parabolic flight 5 d > 1, Strong
Bringoux et al. (2012) Goal-directed movements Parabolic flight 8 ηp2=.43 , Strong
H. S. Cohen et al. (2012) Posture Spaceflight 15 d = 1.6, Strong
Kornilova et al. (2012) Gaze control Spaceflight 26 d = 2.81, Strong
Lowrey et al. (2014) Somatosensation Spaceflight 11 d = 1.03, Strong
Senot et al. (2012) Interceptive actions Parabolic flight 37 d > 1, Strong
Crevecoeur et al. (2014) Kinematic Parabolic flight 12 d = 4.2, Strong
Ritzmann et al. (2016) Locomotion Parabolic flight 8 d = 4.08, Strong
Cognitive domain
Messerotti Benvenuti et al. (2011) Brain plasticity Head-down bed rest 22 d = 0.266, Weak
Zhao et al. (2011) Working memory Head-down bed rest 44 No effects of gravity, Weak
Dalecki et al. (2013) Mental rotation? Parabolic flight 6 No effects of gravity, Weak
Dolenc & Petrič (2013) Verbal memory Head-down bed rest 15 d = 0.62, Medium
Jiang et al. (2013) Cognitive judgements Head-down bed rest 16 No effects of gravity, Weak
Basner et al. (2015) Abstract reasoning Sleep deprivation 44 d = 0.65, Medium
Liu, Zhou, et al. (2015a) Working memory Head-down bed rest 16 η2 = .146, Medium
Steinberg et al. (2015) Control efficacy Parabolic flight 12 η2 = .64, Strong
Socio-affective domain
Rai et al. (2012) Fatigue Mars analogue 30 η2 = .17, Strong
Dern et al. (2014) Mood and emotion Altered gravity 16 d = .95, Strong
Stavrou et al. (2015) Mood and emotion Head-down bed rest 11 ηp2=.583 , Strong
I. Cohen et al. (2016) Work performance and cognitive and affective variables Mars analogue 6 Weak (qualitatively estimated)
Stavrou et al. (2018a) Mood and emotion Head-down bed rest 11 ηp2=.28 , Strong
Stavrou et al. (2018b) Fatigue Head-down bed rest 11 ηp2=.166 , Medium
Weber et al. (2019) Mood and cognition Isolation 16 No effects of gravity, Weak