Baddeley's influential model of working memory postulates a unitary central executive that allocates mental resources to several distinct short-term buffers. Subjects viewed individually presented single numerals and were required to maintain memory sets ...

The use of mobile phones has been shown to increase drivers' reaction times (RTs), but whether this results from interference with attention, stimulus identification, or response production remains unclear. We recorded RTs and event-related brain ...

Migraineurs with and without aura (MWAs and MWOAs) as well as controls were measured twice with an interval of 7 days. The first session of recordings and tests for migraineurs was held about 7 hours after a migraine attack. We hypothesized that ...

Heart rate has been reported to increase during nausea and has therefore been used as an indicator of motion sickness. However, the relationship between heart rate and subjective ratings of motion sickness has received little attention, and the autonomic ...

Objective: To study gender differences of cardiovascular responses due to painful stimuli during sphygmomanometry. Methods: We studied 80 subjects (40 women, 40 men). Blood pressure (BP) was determined continuously and noninvasively using a Finapres ...