Effects of visual and verbal presentation on cognitive load in vigilance, memory, and arithmetic tasks

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-332

  Klingner, Jeff ^a   Tversky, Barbara ^b,c   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Learning memory; Normal volunteers; Pupil dilations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551694026     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01069.x     Document Type: Article

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