Autonomic regulation and maze-learning performance in older and younger adults

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-27

  Mathewson, Karen J ^a   Dywan, Jane ^a   Snyder, Peter J ^b,c   Tays, William J ^a   Segalowitz, Sidney J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Executive function; Heart rate variability (HRV); Medial prefrontal cortex; Normal aging; Response control; Vagal tone; Visual spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC REGULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS TONE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY RATE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052507788     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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