The effect of vocalization on the heart rate response to mental arithmetic

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-224

  Seraganian, Peter ^a   Szabo, Attila ^b,c   Brown, Thomas G ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Mental arithmetic; Mental task; Nonverbal task; Peak response; Reactivity; Verbal task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030792231     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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