New paradigm for task switching strategies while performing multiple tasks: Entropy and symbolic dynamics analysis of voluntary patterns

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 471-497

  Guastello, Stephen J ^a   Gorin, Hillary ^a   Huschen, Samuel ^a   Peters, Natalie E ^a   Fabisch, Megan ^a   Poston, Kirsten ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Orbital decomposition; Performance; Shannon entropy; Task switching; Topological entropy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSTHYMIA; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECREATION;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEO GAMES; VOLITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870459163     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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