Tonic blood pressure modulates the relationship between baroreceptor cardiac reflex sensitivity and cognitive performance

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 932-938

  Reyes Del Paso, Gustavo A ^a   González, M Isabel ^a   Hernández, José Antonio ^a   Duschek, Stefan ^b   Gutiérrez, Nicolás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor reflex sensitivity; Blood pressure; Cognitive performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PRESSORECEPTORS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349089289     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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