Adrenaline and noradrenaline: relation to performance in a visual vigilance task.
Concentrations of adrenaline and noradrenaline in the circulating blood were measured in blood samples taken from subjects as they performed a visual vigilance task or viewed movies, both under identical conditions. For those subjects whose vigilance performance deteriorated it was concluded that the concentration of circulating adrenaline decreases as a function of time in a vigilance task but not under "relaxed" conditions, such as watching motion pictures. crementers under "relaxed"conditions.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001769:Blood; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D011603:Psychophysiology; D014796:Visual Perception
D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine