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TASKS THAT ELICIT COGNITIVE WORKLOAD

What sorts of tasks reliably elicit cognitive workload? Our experience is that cognitive workload increases as more brain regions or more cognitive functions become involved. Thus, tasks that are high level tasks such as...

HOW IS COGNITIVE WORKLOAD MEASURED?

There exist only a few ways to measure cognitive workload. Until fairly recently, the available choices were to rely on external behavioral outcomes or on the individual’s own impression of workload. With the former,...

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS

The cognitive demands of a task can be examined using a process called cognitive task analysis. A cognitive task analysis produces predominantly verbal descriptions rather than quantitative measurements that may be compared across tasks....

COGNITIVE WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE

Cognitive workload describes an individual’s mental response to a task. Cognitive task load describes the cognitive demands inherent in the task. The individual’s cognitive workload is greatly influenced by the task’s cognitive demands, with...