Although some believe that motion sickness is caused by signal mismatches in the brain, the official causes of motion sickness remain a mystery. Dr. Thomas Stoffregen, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception- Action Laboratory, has made advancements in the main competing theory about the body’s inability to maintain proper posture and control in a moving environment.

Stoffregen was recently quoted in Vox.com about his research on ships with virtual reality displays in the article, “Here’s why you get carsick- even when other people don’t.”

In the piece, Stoffregen states, “In each and every case, we have found that the objective patterns in body sway data differ between people who get sick and people who do not get sick, and that those differences exist before anyone feels sick”