Reduced baroreflex cardiac sensitivity predicts increased cognitive performance

Psychophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-45

  Yasumasu, Tomiya ^a   Reyes Del Paso, Gustavo A ^b   Takahara, Kazuo ^a   Nakashima, Yasuhide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor reflex sensitivity; Cognitive functions; Spectral analysis; Uchida Kraepelin test

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TEST; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645302659     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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