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Chen, Fu-Chen; Stoffregen, Thomas A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
Mariners actively adjust their body orientation in response to ship motion. On a ship at sea, we evaluated relations between standing postural activity and the performance of a precision aiming task. Standing participants (experienced mariners) maintained the beam from a handheld laser on a target. Targets were large or small, thereby varying the…
Descriptors: Workstations, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis, Priming
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Brunye, Tad T.; Mahoney, Caroline R.; Rapp, David N.; Ditman, Tali; Taylor, Holly A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
Caffeine has become the most prevalently consumed psychostimulant in the world, but its influences on daily real-world functioning are relatively unknown. The present work investigated the effects of caffeine (0 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 400 mg) on a commonplace language task that required readers to identify and correct 4 error types in extended…
Descriptors: Evidence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Syllables, Maintenance
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Koh, Ranieri Y. I.; Park, Taezoon; Wickens, Christopher D.; Ong, Lay Teng; Chia, Soon Noi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
This study investigated the effect of nursing experience on attention allocation and task performance during surgery. The prevention of cases of retained foreign bodies after surgery typically depends on scrub nurses, who are responsible for performing multiple tasks that impose heavy demands on the nurses' cognitive resources. However, the…
Descriptors: Surgery, Eye Movements, Nurses, Attention