Task-specific sex differences in vigilance performance: Subjective workload and Boredom

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 1195-1202

  Prinzel III, Lawrence J ^a   Freeman, Frederick G ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOREDOM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BOREDOM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031301889     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.3f.1195     Document Type: Article

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