Cognitive and emotional processing at high altitude

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-33

  Pavlicek, Vojtech ^a   Schirlo, Christian ^a   Nebel, Andreas ^a   Regard, Marianne ^b   Koller, Erwin A ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Functional hemispheric asymmetries; Hypobaric hypoxia; Neuropsychological functions

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OXYGEN SATURATION; TACHISTOSCOPY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 12144276061     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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