Reliability of the 5-min psychomotor vigilance task in a primary school classroom setting

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 754-758

  Wilson, Andrew ^a   Dollman, James ^a   Lushington, Kurt ^a   Olds, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL;

AROUSAL; CHILD; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS;

EID: 77957693111     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.3.754     Document Type: Article

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