Driver sleepiness-Comparisons between young and older men during a monotonous afternoon simulated drive

Biological Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 580-583

  Filtness, Ashleigh J ^a,b   Reyner, Louise A ^a   Horne, James A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age effects; Driving ability; Driving simulator; Road safety; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DRIVING ABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP STAGES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858006949     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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