Can cognitive activities during breaks in repetitive manual work accelerate recovery from fatigue? A controlled experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Mathiassen, Svend Erik ^a   Hallman, David M ^a   Lyskov, Eugene ^a   Hygge, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; HEART RATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAIN THRESHOLD; SHOULDER; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910643695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112090     Document Type: Article

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