People with extended visuomotor experience with inverted movements -- such as vertical dancers -- can overcome the inversion effect in perceiving biological motion. Previous studies have determined ...

Experimental design (a) and results for the space experiment (b) and the ground-based control experiments (c & d). BMIE: the normalized BM inversion effect; BMUpr & BMInv: task performances for the ...

image: Emily Brumbaugh, a 2014 University of Wyoming graduate, participates in a vertical dance performance. Qin Zhu, a UW professor of kinesiology and health, and Margaret Wilson, professor and head ...

To what extent has Earth's gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...