A system for psychomotor evaluation; design, implementation and practice effects in volunteers

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 545-550

  Hope, A T ^a   Woolman, P S ^b   Gray, W M ^a   Asbury, A J ^a   Millar, K ^c  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Measurement techniques; psychomotor testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; MICROCOMPUTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME;

ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031776271     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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