Cognition during sustained operations: Comparison of a laboratory simulation to field studies

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 929-935

  Lieberman, Harris R ^a   Niro, Philip ^a   Tharion, William J ^a   Nindl, Bradley C ^a   Castellani, John W ^a   Montain, Scott J ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster relief; Food deprivation; Memory; Military; Reaction time; Sleep deprivation; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; FIELD STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIMULATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; DISASTERS; EXERTION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; RELIEF WORK; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 33748261258     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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