Performance of Concurrent Tasks: a Psychophysiological Analysis of the Reciprocity of Information-Processing Resources

Authors

Christopher Wickens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A. Kramer
L. Vanasse
Emanuel Donchin

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1983

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6879207

Abstract

The resources allocated to a primary and secondary task are reciprocal. Subjects performed a tracking task in which the discrete displacements of the tracking cursor could be used to elicit event-related brain potentials. As the resource demands of the tracking task were increased, potentials elicited by the task-defined events increased in amplitude, whereas those elicited by secondary task auditory stimuli decreased.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Science, v. 221, issue 4615, p. 1080-1082

Scholar Commons Citation

Wickens, Christopher; Kramer, A.; Vanasse, L.; and Donchin, Emanuel, "Performance of Concurrent Tasks: a Psychophysiological Analysis of the Reciprocity of Information-Processing Resources" (1983). Psychology Faculty Publications. 262.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/262