Effects of different stay durations on attentional performance during two mountain expeditions

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 678-684

  Bonnon, M ^a   Noel Jorand M C ^b   Therme, P ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Département de Physiologie   (France)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Attention; Chronic hypoxia; High altitude

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXPEDITIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0342656172     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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