Multimodal Measures of the Energetic Demands of Information Processing in a Suboptimal Environment
Twenty-four male volunteers participated in a study in which the feature extraction and response choice information processing stages of a visual memory task and the environment in which the task was performed were manipulated in order to assess the specificity of energetic demands. Ambient auditory...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 1993-10, Vol.37 (19), p.1393-1397 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Twenty-four male volunteers participated in a study in which the feature extraction and response choice information processing stages of a visual memory task and the environment in which the task was performed were manipulated in order to assess the specificity of energetic demands. Ambient auditory noise was a state variable that was predicted to directly affect the energetic mechanism supporting the feature extraction processing stage and to indirectly affect the energetic mechanism supporting the response choice processing stage. Several classes of dependent measures were taken including performance, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic in order to isolate effects upon energetic mechanisms. The present study did not support the proposition of multiple energetic mechanisms. Instead, the combination of a single variable-capacity energetic resource with a flexible allocation policy to the processing stages was a better fit to the results. |
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ISSN: | 1541-9312 1071-1813 2169-5067 |
DOI: | 10.1518/107118193784162245 |