Contrasts between the cardiovascular concomitants of tests of planning and attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 610-618

  Middleton, H C ^a,c   Sharma, A ^a   Agouzoul, D ^a   Sahakian, B J ^b   Robbins, T W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Finapres; Planning; Response stereotypy; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOLITION;

EID: 0032802088     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299981726     Document Type: Article

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