Postural sway research published in PLOS ONE

StoffregenT_2015
Thomas Stoffregen
WadeM-2012
Michael Wade

The research study “The rim and the ancient mariner: The nautical horizon affects postural sway in older adults,” co-authored by School of Kinesiology’s  Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), and Michael Wade, Ph.D., has been published in the widely read science journal, PLOS ONE.

The other co-authors are:

  • Justin Munafo, APAL grad student and Ph.D. candidate
  • Dr. Nick Stergiou, University of Nebraska at Omaha
The article reports research that was conducted aboard the Semester at Sea, a sea voyage that traveled from Nassau to Santo Domingo. Read the full article here.