Sensitivity to mental effort and test-retest reliability of heart rate variability measures in healthy seniors

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2059-2066

  Mukherjee, Shalini ^a   Yadav, Rajeev ^b   Yung, Iris ^a   Zajdel, Daniel P ^a   Oken, Barry S ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detrended fluctuation analysis; Entropy; Heart rate variability; Mental effort; Non linear approaches; Poincar ; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TIME; UNITED STATES; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052413789     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.02.032     Document Type: Article

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