Effects of moderate hypobaric hypoxia on evoked categorical visuocognitive responses

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1475-1485

  Tsarouchas, N ^a,b,c   Benedek, K ^b   Bezerianos, A ^a   Benedek, G ^c   Keri, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Categorical visuocognitive ERPs; ERP components peak amplitude and latency; Hypobaric hypoxia; n ANOVA; Productive and inhibitory psychomotor responses; SatO2

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARIC HYPOXIA; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949111230     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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