Cognitive performance over 7 days in a distressed submarine

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 604-608

  Slaven, Georgina M ^a   Windle, Carol M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Environmental stressors; Submarine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CORE TEMPERATURE; DISORIENTATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

CLOTHING; COGNITION; DEHYDRATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MEMORY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STARVATION; SUBMARINE MEDICINE; SURVIVAL; TIME FACTORS;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0033025696     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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