Professor of kinesiology Dr. Thomas A. Stoffregen and his research as director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) was featured in the Star Tribune in an article titled, “A simulator at the U of M is rethinking motion sickness.”
In the article, Stoffregen explains a new theory for why people get motion sickness, attributing it to body sway, not to the inner ear. “The way that you sway is predictive of whether you’re susceptible to motion sickness,” Stoffregen said.
Read the entire piece here as well watch a video of Stoffregen explaining his research.