Self-Alert Training: Volitional modulation of autonomic arousal improves sustained attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1379-1390

  O'Connell, Redmond G ^a   Bellgrove, Mark A ^b   Dockree, Paul M ^a   Lau, Adam ^a   Fitzgerald, Michael ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arousal; Electrodermal activity; Neuropsychological training; Prefrontal cortex; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SELF ALERT TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CUES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VOLITION;

EID: 42749084822     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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