The association between heart rate reactivity and driving performance under dual task demands in late middle age drivers

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue SPEC.ISSU, 2008, Pages 53-70

  Mehler, B ^a   Reimer, B ^a   Pohlmeyer, A E ^a   Coughlin, J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Attentional demands; Cognitive performance; Distraction; Driving performance; Dual task; Heart rate acceleration deceleration; Workload

Indexed keywords

AGE; ATTENTIONAL DEMANDS; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; DISTRACTION; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; DUAL-TASKS; HEART RATES; WORKLOAD;

ACCELERATION; ACCELERATION CONTROL; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

HEART;

EID: 77950324633     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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