Human Information Processing under Varying Task Demand
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 16 (5) , 581-586
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140137308924548
Abstract
Experiments on the rate of human information transmission show that the relation ship between performance and demand, depends upon time history of demand; beyond overload, performance does not recover at the expected rate as demand is reduced. The resulting ‘ hysteresis ’ effect increases after moderate doses of alcohol. Some implications of these results in real-life situations are discussed.Keywords
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