Evidence for the selective attention mechanism and dual-task interference

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-347

  Liu, Chau Chyun ^a   Doong, Ji Liang ^b   Hsu, Chun Chia ^c   Huang, Wei Shin ^b   Jeng, Ming Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Dual task interference; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ATTENTION SELECTION; BOTTLENECK; DUAL-TASK INTERFERENCE; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING MODELS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION MECHANISM; SEQUENCE MODELING;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 60149104861     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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