Mental Stress and its Implications on Reaction time

Apoorvagiri; Nagananda M S

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Volume 4 | Issue 5 | Year 2013 | Article Id. IJCTT-V4I5P87 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V4I5P87

Mental Stress and its Implications on Reaction time

Apoorvagiri, Nagananda M S

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Apoorvagiri, Nagananda M S, "Mental Stress and its Implications on Reaction time," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT), vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1426-1430, 2013. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V4I5P87

Abstract

Stress is a common in everyday life. Mental distress leads to increase in the reaction time and decrease in attention and concentration. It could results in poor performance. Reaction time implies on stress. When the mind gets exhausted, it usually faces some complications to do mental tasks at the satisfactory performance level which leads to many happenings and mishaps. Subsequently, monitoring of mental stress is essential to assess stress. This paper reviews about quantification of stress using reaction time.

Keywords

Distress, Eustress, Cognition, Latency, and Reaction Time.

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