Varying the complexity of the prospective memory decision process in an air traffic control simulation

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-84

  Loft, Shayne ^a   Pearcy, Ben ^a   Remington, Roger W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Attention; Ongoing task costs; Prospective memory; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855713585     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000051     Document Type: Article

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