METHOD FOR EVALUATING TIME OF INDIVIDUAL'S RESPONSE TO MOVING OBJECT Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: person being tested is presented with a circle, which comprises a mark and a point object, on a monitor screen. The point object moves at a preset speed around the circumference; at the moment the moving point object and the mark are supposed to converge, the individual presses the Stop button to stop the circular motion of the moving point object. After a preset time, the motion of the point object is reactivated. The described procedure is repeated for the preset number of times; after stopping the circular motion of the point object, a deflection of the point object from the mark is evaluated. The time of the individual's response T_r to the moving object is evaluated as an arithmetic mean value by formula

wherein t_i is the i-th deflection of the point object from the mark, ms; n is the number of stops of the point object in the area of the mark.

EFFECT: method enables providing the more reliable evaluation of the time of the individual's response to the moving object ensured by the fact that the time of delay or advance error is accepted as deflections of the stopped moving object from the mark and taken with a positive sign.

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