Relations Between Heart Rate, Reaction Speed, and Subjective Effort at Different Work Loads on a Bicycle Ergometer
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Human Stress
- Vol. 1 (4) , 21-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840x.1975.9939549
Abstract
The hypothesis concerning an inverted-U relationship between activation and performance was examined by comparing the performance of 25 subjects in a choice-reaction task at five different work loads on a bicycle ergometer. Heart rate was used as an index of activation. The results were in full agreement with the hypothesis, performance being more efficient at a medium activation level than at high and low levels.Keywords
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