APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Lighting Color Temperature and Effort-Related Cardiac Response
- Ruta Lasauskaite
Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel - Ruta Lasauskaite
University of Basel - Christian Cajochen
University of Basel - Christian Cajochen
Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel
Abstract
Here we tested the hypothesis whether higher color temperature of light reduces mental effort intensity. We investigated mental effort-related cardiac response under four lighting conditions and found, as predicted, that cardiac reactivity decreased with increasing color temperature of light.
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