Neurocognitive workload assessment using the virtual reality cognitive performance assessment test

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5639 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 243-252

  Parsons, Thomas D ^a   Cosand, Louise ^a   Courtney, Christopher ^a   Iyer, Arvind ^a   Rizzo, Albert A ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological validity; Neurocognitive; Neuropsychological assessment; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION PERFORMANCE; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; RIGOROUS RESEARCH; STIMULUS INTENSITY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT;

ECOLOGY; REAL VARIABLES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 76249119353     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02728-4_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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