The effect of breathing 100 percent oxygen on short term memory of military officers.
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Authors
Marsden, Richard Alan
Subjects
short term memory
pure oxygen breathing
pure oxygen breathing
Advisors
Poock, Gary K.
Date of Issue
1975-03
Date
March 1975
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Using a serial short term memory task, subjects were
required to respond to symbols presented one-back, 2-back,
and 3-back from a randomly presented list of four different
symbols while breathing either 100 percent oxygen or atmospheric
air with an oxygen mask. The purpose of the experiment
was to determine whether breathing 100 percent oxygen had
an effect on short term memory. Analysis of the data
collected from 36 subjects showed that breathing pure oxygen
had no effect on the subjects' short term memory ability over
a 12 minute period. This result is in direct contrast to
previously reported results.
Type
Thesis
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Department
Operations Research and Systems Analysis
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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