Effects of task difficulty and invested mental effort on peripheral vasoconstriction

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 789-798

  Iani, Cristina ^a,b   Gopher, Daniel ^a   Lavie, Peretz ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mental effort; Peripheral arterial tone; Pulse variability; Sympathetic activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; STERNBERG MEMORY TASK; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 4644327900     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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