Mental effort affects vigilance enduringly: After-effects in EEG and behavior

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-243

  Smit, Annika S ^a   Eling, Paul A T M ^a   Coenen, Anton M L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beta; EEG; Mental effort; Performance; Theta; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 3042787689     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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