Free Cognitive Capacity Assessed by the P300 Method During Manual Docking Training in Space.

The classical P300 brain potential method was used to assess the cognitive capacity during training of manual docking in space. The aim of the study was to enhance the safety of this operation during a mission. To examine this, = 8 cosmonauts had to perform the manually controlled docking task simultaneously with an acoustic monitoring task.

Operator's Reliability During Spacecraft Docking Training on Board Mir and ISS.

The experimental research PILOT on board the space stations aimed to assess cosmonauts expectable reliability in a mission relevant operation, the manual docking of Soyuz or Progress spacecrafts on the space stations Mir and International Space Station (ISS), respectively. Therefore, a simulation of the docking of two space apparatuses was used for training and research. The methodological approach is described, taking into consideration the level of performance and the individual effort spent, the psychophysiological costs.

Operational and Experimental Tasks, Performance, and Voice in Space.

Voice analysis offers an unobtrusive approach for psychological monitoring. We demonstrate the relationship between voice parameters and cognitive performance in: 1) a task with psychological test character, and 2) performance in an operational, mission-relevant task. The central methodological aim was to verify the usefulness of voice commands and counting in providing anchor values for the step-function model of voice pitch.