Thinking on your back: Solving anagrams faster when supine than when standing

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 719-722

  Lipnicki, Darren M ^a   Byrne, Don G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anagrams; Baroreceptors; Insight; Locus coeruleus; Noradrenaline; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NOREPINEPHRINE; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 23644444817     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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