Changes in physiology before, during, and after yawning

Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Corey, Timothy P ^a   Shoup Knox, Melanie L ^a   Gordis, Elana B ^a   Gallup, Gordon G ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cooling; Heart rate; Physiology; Respiration; Temperature; Thermoregulation; Yawning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872467634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1663070X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2011.00007     Document Type: Article

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