Workload capacity spaces: A unified methodology for response time measures of efficiency as workload is varied

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 659-681

  Townsend, James T ^a   Eidels, Ami ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

AND task; Capacity; Coactive model; OR task; Race model; Response times; Workload

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79959992497     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0106-9     Document Type: Review

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