Cognitive demands and the relationship between age and workload in apron control

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-33

  Müller, Andreas ^a   Petru, Raluca ^a   Angerer, Peter ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Apron control; Heart rate; NASA Task Load Index (TLX); Task analysis; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; AVIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79951602347     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2797.2011     Document Type: Article

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