Reproducibility of skeletal muscle vasodilatation responses to Stroop mental challenge over repeated sessions

Biological Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-189

  Hamer, Mark ^a   Boutcher, Yati N ^b   Park, Young ^b   Boutcher, Stephen H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forearm blood flow reactivity; Habituation; Psychosocial stress; Reliability; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FOREARM; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASODILATION;

EID: 33745945897     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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