Fitting a model to behavior tells us what changes cognitively when under stress and with caffeine

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-09-01, Issue , 2009, Pages 109-115

  Ritter, Frank E ^a   Kase, Sue E ^a   Klein, Laura Cousino ^a   Bennett, Jeanette ^a   Schoelles, Michael ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MECHANISMS; COGNITIVE MODEL; COGNITIVE MODELING; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SUBJECT EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE DATA; TREATMENT GROUP;

EID: 77954223992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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