EEG and ECG changes during selected flight sequences

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 889-897

  Dussault, Caroline ^a   Jouanin, Jean Claude ^a   Guezennec, Charles Yannick ^a  

^a Institut de Medecine Aerospatiale du Service de Sante des Armees   (France)

Author keywords

Electrophysiological indices; Pilot mental workload; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FLIGHT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 4744370385     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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