Category: Tasks

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...

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....

Let’s assume we are looking around for a cognitive task to include in a new experiment. We want the task to have a number of well-defined characteristics. Some important features are: Results in a...

The Follow-Solve-Listen Test (FSLT) is a three-part test, with each part requiring about 45 seconds of response time from the subject. The task is available for general use and may be of interest to...