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In human performance theory, changes in the quality of performance, or the time required by an individual to complete a task, are frequently interpreted with reference to some underlying limitations of the human processing and response system. Deficits and interference in the performance of concurrent tasks are also taken to reflect the same limitations, with an added factor of the requirement to coordinate simultaneous but separate strings of activities. Typical examples are the increased latency and reduced accuracy of responses when memory load is increased, or decrements in tracking accuracy when this task is time shared with a reaction time task.
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Gopher, D. (1986). In Defence of Resources: On Structures, Energies, Pools and the Allocation of Attention. 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_25
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