Some effects of vibration upon visual performance

Abstract

Experiments have been carried out in which the effects upon visual performance of whole-body vibration have been compared with the effects of vibrating the visual object itself. At 6 cps, using similar angular displacements, vibration of the visual object was found to result in higher impairment of vision than vibration of the human subject. At 14, 19, and 27 cps the converse was found to be the case; results which support previous theories of resonance of eyeball or facial tissue to account for the sensitivity of visual performance to whole-body vibration at these higher frequencies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)