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From: andrew@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE ()
Subject: Cognitive Load
Summary: Cognitive load not involving the auditory modality
Message-ID: <1995Jan26.141841.77002@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 14:18:41 GMT
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I'm interested in producing cognitive load in subjects participating
in a listening task.  It is important that the task does not involve
the auditory modality so cannot really be monitoring another speech
signal, nor a task which requires subvocal rehearsal or a similar
task.

One possibility is to make subjects perform a tracking task involving
hand-eye coordination such as tracking a moving object on screen with
a mouse-controlled cursor.

Does anyone have experience of implementing a similar task, or have
ideas about any potential pitfalls in this approach, or have any
ideas on how to implement it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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