Effects of task load and cognitive abilities on performance and subjective mental workload in a tracking task

Referencias bibliográficas

• Ackerman, P.L. (1988). Determinants of individual differences during skills acquisition: Cognitive abilities and information processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 288-318.
• Ben-Shakhar, G., and Sheffer, L. (2001). The relationship between the ability to divided attentionand standard measures of general cognitive abilities. Intelligence, 29, 293-306.
• Boles, D.B., Bursk, J.H., Phillips, J.B. and Perdelwitz, J.R. (2007). Predicting dual-task performance with the multiple resources questionnaire (MRQ). Human Factors, 49, 1, 32-45.
• Bunce, D. and Sisa, L. (2002). Age differences in perceived workload across a short vigil. Ergonomics, 45, 13, 949-960.
• Crutchfield, J. and Rosenberg, C. (2007). Predicting Subjective Workload Ratings: A Comparison and Synthesis of Operational and Theorical Models. (DOT/FAA/AM07/6). Washington, DC:FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine.
• Deaton, J.E. and Parasuraman, R. (1993). Sensory and cognitive vigilance: effects of age on performance and subjective workload. Human Performance, 6, 1, 71-97.
• Fairclough, S.H. (2001). Mental effort regulation and functional impairment of the driver. In P.A. Hancock and P.A. Desmond (Ed.), Stress, Workload and Fatigue. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers (pp. 479-502).
• Genaidy, A.; Salem, S.; Karwowski, W.; Paez, O. and Tuncel, S. (2007). The work compatibility improvement framework: an integrated perspective of the human-at-work system. Ergonomics, 50, 1, 3-25.
• Gonzalez, C. (2005). Task workload and cognitive abilities in dynamic decision making. Human Factors, 47, 1, 92-101.
• Gopher, D. and Donchin, E. (1986). Workload: An Examination of the Concept. In K. Boff, L. Kaufman and J.P. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Perception and Human Performance. New York: Wiley & Sons.
• Hancock, P.A. and Meshkati, N. (Eds.) (1988). Human Mental Workload. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Hancock, P.A., Williams, G., Miyake, S. and Manning, C.M. (1995). The influence of task demand characteristics on workload and performance. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 5, 63-85.
• Hart, S.G. and Staveland, L. E. (1988). Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In P.A. Hancock and N. Meshkati (Eds.), Human Mental Workload. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
• Hill, S.G., Iavecchia, H.P., Byers, J.C., Bittner, A.C., Zaklad, A.L. and Christ, R.E. (1992). Comparison of four subjective workload rating scales. Human Factors, 34, 429-439.
• ISO 10075 (1991). Ergonomic Principles Related to Mental Work-load: Part I: General Terms and Definitions.
• Johnson, A., and Proctor, R.W. (2004). Attention. Theory and Practice. London: Sage.
• Legree, P.J., Heffner, T. S., Psotka, J., Martin, D. E. and Medsker, G. J. (2003). Traffic crash involvement: experiential driving knowledge and stressful contextual antecedents. Journal of applied psychology 58, 1, 15-26.
• Meshkati, N. (1988). Toward development of a cohesive model of workload. In P.A. Hancock and N. Meshkati (Eds.), Human mental workload. Amsterdam: North Holland.
• Miyake, S., Loslever, P. and Hancock, P.A. (2001). Individual differences in tracking. Ergonomics, 44, 12, 1056-1068.
• Morris, C.H. and Leung, Y.K. (2006). Pilot mental workload: how well do pilots really perform?. Ergonomics, 49, 15,1581-1596.
• O'Donell, R. and Eggemeier, F. T. (1986). Workload assessment methodology. In K. R. Boff, L. Kaufman and J. P. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and human performance, 42, 1-49. New York: Wiley.
• Pretorius, A. and Cilliers, P.J. (2007). Development of a mental workload index: A systems approach. Ergonomics, 50, 9, 1503-1515.
• Recarte, M.A., Perez, E., Conchillo, A. and Nunes, L.M. (2008). Mental workload and visual impairment: Differences between pupil, blink and subjective ratings. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 11, 2, 374-385.
• Reid, G.B., Eggemeier, F.T. and Singledecker, C.A. (1982). Subjective workload assessment technique. Proceedings of the 1982 AIAA Workshop on Flight Testing to Identify Pilot Workload and Pilot Synamics, 281-288.
• Reid, G.B., Singledecker, C.A. and Eggemeier, F.T. (1981). Application of conjoint measurement to workload scale development. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 522-526.
• Rubio, S. (1992). Evaluación y Medida de la Carga Mental en una Tarea de Diagnóstico de Fallos. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Rubio, S. (1993). Efectos de la complejidad de una tarea de detección de fallos sobre la carga subjetiva. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 9, 25, 145-164.
• Rubio, S., Díaz, E. M., Martín, J. and Puente, J.M. (2004). Evaluation of subjective mental workload: a comparison of SWAT, NASA-TLX and Workload Profile methodos. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 53, 61-86.
• Sherehiy, B. and Karwowski, W. (2006). Subjective scales of effort and workload assessment. In, W. S. Marras and W. Karwowski (Eds.), Fundamental and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics. London: Taylor & Francis.
• Szalma, J.L. (2008). Individual differences in stress reaction. In, P.A. Hancock and J.L. Szalma (Eds.), Performance Under Stress. Hampshire: Ashgate.
• Taylor, J. L., O'Hara, R., Mumenthaler, M. S., Rosen, A. C., and Yesavage, J. A. (2005). Cognitive ability, expertise, and age differences in following air-traffic control instructions. Psychology and Aging, 20, 1, 117-133.
• Tsang, P.S. and Velazquez V.L. (1996). Diagnosticity and multidimensional subjective workload ratings. Ergonomics, 39, 3, 358-381.
• Tuholski, S.W., Engle, R.W., and Baylis, G. C. (2001). Individual differences in working memory capacity and enumeration. Memory and Cognition, 29, 484-492.
• Vitense, H.S., Jacko, J.A. and Emery, V.K. (2003). Multimodal feedback: an assessment of performance and mental workload. Ergonomics, 46, 1-3, 68-87.
• Warm, J. S., Matthews, G., and Finomore, V.S. (2008). Vigilance, workload, and stress. In, P.A. Hancock and J.L. Szalma (Eds.), Performance under Stress. Hampshire: Ashgate.
• Welford, A. T. (1986). Mental Workload as a function of demand, capacity, strategy and skill. Ergonomics, 21, 151-176.
• Wickens, Ch. D. (1984). Engineering Psychology and Human Performance. Columbus, OH: Charles Merrill.
• Wickens, Ch. D. (2008). Multiple resources and mental workload. Human Factors, 50, 3, 449-455.
• Xie, B. and Salvendy, G. (2000). Review and reappraisal of modelling and predicting mental workload in singleand multitask environments. Work and Stress, 14, 1, 74-99.
• Young, M. S. and Stanton, N.A. (2001). Mental workload: theory, measurement, and application. In W. Karwowski (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors: Volume I. London: Taylor & Francis. (p. 507-509).
• Young, M. S. and Stanton, N.A. (2002). It's all relative: defining mental workload in the light of Annett's paper. Ergonomics, 45, 14, 1018-1020.
• Yuste, C. (1997). IGF. Inteligencia General y Factorial. Madrid: Tea Ediciones.