Event-related cortical dynamics of soldiers during shooting as a function of varied task demand

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages

  Kerick, Scott E ^a   Hatfield, Brad D ^b   Allender, Laurel E ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha; Cognitive workload; EEG; Event related spectral perturbation; Shooting performance; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SOLDIER; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; WEAPON;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248181179     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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