Effects of arterial and cardiopulmonary baroreceptor activation on simple and choice reaction times

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 874-879

  McIntyre, David ^a   Ring, Christopher ^a   Hamer, Mercedes ^a   Carroll, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial baroreceptors; Cardiopulmonary baroreceptors; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPINE POSITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; POSTURE; PRESSORECEPTORS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 35348987082     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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