Field assessment and enhancement of cognitive performance: Development of an ambulatory vigilance monitor

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages

  Lieberman, Harris R ^a   Kramer, F Matthew ^b   Montain, Scott J ^a   Niro, Philip ^a  

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

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Light; Motor activity; Reaction time; Sleep; Sound

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ALERTNESS; AMBULATORY CARE; ARMY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMIDITY; LABORATORY; LIGHT; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOUND DETECTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRAINING;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MEMORY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34248230806     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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