Performance of concurrent tasks: A psychophysiological analysis of the reciprocity of information-processing resources

Christopher Wickens, Arhur Kramer, Linda Vanasse, Emanuel Donchin

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1080-1082
Number of pages3
JournalScience
Volume221
Issue number4615
DOIs
StatePublished - 1983
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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