Systems Neuroscience and the Aerospace Medical Unit at McGill University
This past year was the 50th anniversary of McGill’s Aerospace Medical Unit (AMRU), which is currently home to more than 30 trainees (MSc and PhD students, and Postdoctoral fellows). The unit has a long tradition of cutting edge research aimed towards better understanding the physiology of sensory perception for action, as well as the learning that occurs as the result of changes in the environment. For example, in space, the brain must adapt to establish a new “normal” because microgravity is reduced. Throughout the 1960-1980s work in the unit focused on understanding the limits of human motor learning that occurs during everyday life, and in altered environments such as that experienced during space flight.
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