Thomas A. Stoffregen, Ph.D., director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) and professor of kinesiology, was quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article on motion sickness. The article, “New Views of Motion Sickness,” provides an overview of new research related to motion sickness, including the work of Stoffregen and his lab.
Stoffregen and his colleagues have found that body sway and posture correlate with the severity of seasickness experienced by novices on a ship. “There may be sort of a general classification that people who are susceptible to motion sickness have,” Dr. Stoffregen said. “Maybe they just move differently in general.”
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