Avoiding the problem state bottleneck by strategic use of the environment

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 373-379

  Borst, Jelmer P ^a,b   Buwalda, Trudy A ^b   van Rijn, Hedderik ^b   Taatgen, Niels A ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACT R; Multitasking; Problem state bottleneck; Soft Constraints Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

2300 HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; 2340 COGNITIVE PROCESSES; 4010 HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING; ACT-R; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTITASKING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM STATE BOTTLENECK; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOFT CONSTRAINTS HYPOTHESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

2300 HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; 2340 COGNITIVE PROCESSES; 4010 HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING; ACT-R; MULTITASKING; PROBLEM STATE BOTTLENECK; SOFT CONSTRAINTS HYPOTHESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882993701     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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