Experiential learning and forgetting for manual and cognitive tasks

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 315-326

  Nembhard, David A ^a   Uzumeri, Mustafa V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive task; Forgetting; Learning; Manual task; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRY; LEARNING; MANUAL LABOR; MEMORY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WORKER;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; THROUGHPUT;

COGNITIVE TASK; FORGETTING; LEARNING; MANUAL TASK;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033626907     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(99)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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