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A State Model for Mental Effort

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Energetics and Human Information Processing

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This chapter is devoted to a consideration of the physiological “energy” mechanisms that might underly energetical concepts, such as mental effort often used in information processing theories. This attempt to relate information processing metaphors with neurochemical mechanisms is consistent with the reductionist philosophy that has been underlying our research in which we have been trying to coordinate the concepts of psychology with those of neurochemistry to provide neurochemical mechanism hypotheses for psychological concepts (Warburton, 1983).

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  1. University of Reading, UK

    David M. Warburton

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  1. Medical Research Council (MRC)/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, Dept of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK

    G. Robert J. Hockey

  2. Institute for Perception TNO, Kampweg 5, PO Box 23, 3769, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

    Anthony W. K. Gaillard

  3. Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel St, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA

    Michael G. H. Coles

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Warburton, D.M. (1986). A State Model for Mental Effort. In: Hockey, G.R.J., Gaillard, A.W.K., Coles, M.G.H. (eds) Energetics and Human Information Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4448-0_14

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