The Investigation of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Responses to Fatiguing Static Effort.

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Lind ◽  
J. S. Petrofsky ◽  
C. A. Williams ◽  
T. E. Dahms ◽  
G. Kamen

Author(s):  
Jerrold Scott Petrofsky ◽  
Richard L. Burse ◽  
Alexander R. Lind


1975 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Petrofsky ◽  
A. R. Lind

Previous studies on the relationship of age to isometric muscular strength are few, on isometric endurance rare, and on the physiological responses to static effort nonexistent. This investigation assessed the maximal handgrip strength, the duration of a fatiguing handgrip contraction at a tension of 40% of maximal strength and the heart rate and blood pressure during that contraction of 100 men aged from 22 to 62 yr. The subjects of this study were all men employed in a machine shop for a large aircraft corporation. The homogeneity of their occupations may well explain why, unlike previous reports, we found no change in muscular strength or muscular endurance with age. However, although heart rate increased during the contraction in all subjects, the increase in heart rate was greater in younger men. In contrast, while both systolic and diastolic blood pressures increased during the contraction in all subjects, the largest increase in systolic blood pressure was attained by the men in the older decades; there was no difference due to age in the diastolic blood pressures. The implications of these findings are discussed.





2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 479-487
Author(s):  
Roger G Evans ◽  
Sabatino Ventura ◽  
Roger Al Dampney ◽  
John Ludbrook


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangbing Shen ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Chaoying Tang ◽  
Chunhua Shi ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
...  

Abstract. A considerable number of behavioral and neuroscientific studies on insight problem solving have revealed behavioral and neural correlates of the dynamic insight process; however, somatic correlates, particularly somatic precursors of creative insight, remain undetermined. To characterize the somatic precursor of spontaneous insight, 22 healthy volunteers were recruited to solve the compound remote associate (CRA) task in which a problem can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. The participants’ peripheral nervous activities, particularly electrodermal and cardiovascular responses, were continuously monitored and separately measured. The results revealed a greater skin conductance magnitude for insight trials than for non-insight trials in the 4-s time span prior to problem solutions and two marginally significant correlations between pre-solution heart rate variability (HRV) and the solution time of insight trials. Our findings provide the first direct evidence that spontaneous insight in problem solving is a somatically peculiar process that is distinct from the stepwise process of analytic problem solving and can be represented by a special somatic precursor, which is a stronger pre-solution electrodermal activity and a correlation between problem solution time and certain HRV indicators such as the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD).



2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Ann Metz ◽  
Heidi Kane ◽  
Thery Prok ◽  
Christena Cleveland ◽  
Nancy Collins


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah S. M. Townsend ◽  
Pamela J. Sawyer ◽  
Bettina J. Casad ◽  
Brenda Major ◽  
Wendy Berry Mendes


Author(s):  
Catherine M. Caska ◽  
Timothy W. Smith ◽  
Keith D. Renshaw ◽  
Steven N. Allen


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gordils ◽  
Jeremy Jamieson

Background and Objectives: Social interactions involving personal disclosures are ubiquitous in social life and have important relational implications. A large body of research has documented positive outcomes from fruitful social interactions with amicable individuals, but less is known about how self-disclosing interactions with inimical interaction partners impacts individuals. Design and Methods: Participants engaged in an immersive social interaction task with a confederate (thought to be another participant) trained to behave amicably (Fast Friends) or inimically (Fast Foes). Cardiovascular responses were measured during the interaction and behavioral displays coded. Participants also reported on their subjective experiences of the interaction. Results: Participants assigned to interact in the Fast Foes condition reported more negative affect and threat appraisals, displayed more negative behaviors (i.e., agitation and anxiety), and exhibited physiological threat responses (and lower cardiac output in particular) compared to participants assigned to the Fast Friends condition. Conclusions: The novel paradigm demonstrates differential stress and affective outcomes between positive and negative self-disclosure situations across multiple channels, providing a more nuanced understanding of the processes associated with disclosing information about the self in social contexts.



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