Noise and muscle contraction affecting vigilance task performance

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-171

  Button, Duane C ^a   Behm, David G ^a   Holmes, Michael ^a   Mackinnon, Scott N ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Movement time; Muscle contraction; Noise; Reaction time; Vigilance task

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549144107     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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