Can a shorter psychomotor vigilance task be used as a reasonable substitute for the ten-minute psychomotor vigilance task?

Chronobiology International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1379-1387

  Roach, Gregory D ^a   Dawson, Drew ^a   Lamond, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neurobehavioral cognitive performance; Psychomotor vigilance task; Sustained wakefulness; Test length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIVE MINUTE PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TASK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; MALE; NINETY SECOND PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; TEN MINUTE PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TASK; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHRONOBIOLOGY; COGNITION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH DESIGN; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33845937973     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520601067931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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