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Possible
Student Research Projects
We have immediate openings for
graduate students interested in the topic of vestibular adaptation to space
flight. See project description below.
Below is some idea of the range of student projects available.
(See the Research page for some perspective on these projects.) Projects
involve experiments on human subjects, computerized data analysis, and
mathematical modeling, in various combinations and to varying degrees.
Vestibular
Adaptation
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context-specific adaptation of the inter-aural
translational linear VOR, using head position and other context cues
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analysis of the three-dimensional properties
of eye movements (horizontal, vertical, torsional) during translational
motion
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Kalman filter modeling of the combination
of visual and vestibular information during translation
Other Adaptation
and Orientation Projects
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context-specific adaptation of saccade gain
in parabolic flight
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analysis of the trajectories of the eyes during
saccades, with the head in different orientations or in different gravity
fields
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development of adaptation procedures to enhance
the rate and/or extent of saccade adaptation
Dynamics
of Physiological Systems
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mathematical modeling of the generation of
nystagmus (a type of reflexive eye movement)
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detection of rapid eye movements (nystagmus
fast phases) using computational techniques from the analysis of nonlinear
dynamical systems
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application of eye movement analysis algorithms
to data from vestibular patients
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development of a model of adaptation of saccadic
eye movements, and determination of the optimal variability ("noise") in
such a model
Engineering
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development of scleral search coil system
(digital signal processing, electronics, computer programming)
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implementation of commercial video-based system
for measuring eye movements
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