Relaxation as a cognitive task

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Sebastiani, L ^a   Simoni, A ^a   Gemignani, A ^a   Ghelarducci, B ^a   Santarcangelo, E L ^a,b  

^a Dipto di Fisiologia e Biochimica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BREATHING RATE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CORRUGATOR MUSCLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELAXATION TRAINING; RESPIROGRAM; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; RELAXATION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SUGGESTION;

EID: 16244376803     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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