Changes in reaction time when using oxygen inhalation during simple visual matching tasks

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 175-177

  Chung, Soon Cheol ^a   Tack, Gye Rae ^a   Choi, Mi Hyun ^a   Lee, Soo Jeong ^a   Choi, Jin Seung ^a   Yi, Jeong Han ^a   Lee, Bongsoo ^a   Jun, Jae Hoon ^a   Kim, Hyun Jun ^b   Park, Se Jin ^c  

^a Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cognition; Oxygen; Reaction time; Simple visual matching tasks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; MALE; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849122367     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.050     Document Type: Article

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