Chapter 4 Dual-task performance

Handbook of Perception and Action

Volumn 3, Issue C, 1996, Pages 113-153

  Heuer, H ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5822(96)80021-1     Document Type: Article

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