Rhythms in Human Performance: 1 ½-Hour Oscillations in Cognitive Style
- 22 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4399) , 1326-1328
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.451541
Abstract
Performance on verbal and spatial matching tasks was assessed every 15 minutes for 8 hours. Significant 90- to 100-minute oscillations were observed for each task. These oscillations were 180° out of phase, supporting the hypothesis that in humans the basic rest activity cycle involves alternating activation of processing systems residing in the two cerebral hemispheres.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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