Effect on truck drivers' alertness of a 30-min. exposure to bright light: A field study

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 98, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 770-776

  Landström, Ulf ^a   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^b   Byström, Marianne ^a   Nordström, Bertil ^a   Wibom, Roger ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMNOLENCE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; PHOTOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 4243130427     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.98.3.770-776     Document Type: Article

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