Human stability in the erect stance: Alcohol effects and audio-visual perturbations

Long-term retention of a divided attention psycho-motor test combining choice reaction test and postural balance test: A preliminary study

“…medicines, DUID, sleep-deprivation) to investigate the correlation between the outcomes of this protocol and driving abilities, since to the knowledge of the authors, there are currently only indirect proofs. In fact, it has been corroborated that impairing conditions correlate with postural sway (Liguori et al, 2002;Pascolo et al, 2009) and correlate with driving abilities (Ogden and Moskowitz, 2004).…”

“…They showed that alcohol alone increases postural sway, brake latency and choice reaction time but the administration of caffeine did not counteract the effects of alcohol. Furthermore, Pascolo et al (2009) proved that prolonged listening to high volume music can also cause dizziness and an increase in postural sway similar to alcohol.…”

“…Furthermore, several studies prove that mood state (Desteno et al, 2000), audio-visual perturbations (Pascolo et al, 2009), alcohol and drugs (Liguori et al, 2002;Pascolo et al, 2009) also influence cognitive load (working memory) and/or posture control. However, since this test does not provide information regarding the source of impairment, traditional methods, such as the body fluid analysis, are expected to be still required for formal incrimination.…”

Real-time stability measurement system for postural control

“…There have been many studies conducted in order to measure and to quantify human body sway under various conditions and environments (Blaszczyk et al, 2009;Pascolo et al, 2009;Lamoth et al, 2009). The common method of investigation was, the ability of the subjects to maintain body balance and posture in EO and EC states.…”

“…The common method of investigation was, the ability of the subjects to maintain body balance and posture in EO and EC states. The experimental procedures discussed in this paper adapts similar procedures established in Blaszczyk et al (2009), Pascolo et al (2009 and Lamoth et al (2009). All acquisitions were captured in barefoot conditions, to ensure that the force profile readings acquired were not averaged due to the soles of the subjects' footwear (Urry, 1999) and to provide sensorimotor maximum amount of appropriate afferent information (Page, 2006).…”