1. Chapter 11: Mental Workload, Stress and Individual Differences: Cognitive and Neuroergonomic Approaches
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2. THE NEUROERGONOMIC APPROACH

3. MENTAL WORKLOAD

5. Workload Overload Relative/absolute workload Predictive models
Workload assessment

6. Workload Overload

7. Reserve Capacity Region
Relative predictions

8. Measures of Mental Workload and Reserve Capacity
Behavioral measures
Secondary tasks
Subjective measures
Purpose of workload assessment

9. Neuroergonomics of Workload
Overview
EEG
Event-related potentials
Ultrasound measures of cerebral blood flow
Near infrared spectroscopy and cerebral oxygenation

10. Neuroergonomics of Workload
Heart-rate variability
Pupil diameter
Visual scanning, entropy, and the “nearest neighbor index”
Costs and benefits of physiological measures of workload

11. Relationship between Workload Measures
Dissociation
Effort and the number of tasks

12. Consequences of Workload
Adaptation

13. STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL AROUSAL, AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE

15. The Yerkes Dodson Law

16. Arousal Theory
Transactional and Cognitive Appraisal Theories of Stress
Stress Effects on Performance

17. Stress Components Effects
Selective attention: Narrowing
Selective attention :Distraction
Working memory loss
Preservation

18. Stress Components Effects
Strategic control
Recruitment of more resources
Remove the stressor
Change the goals of the task
Do nothing

20. Stress Remediation
Environmental solutions
Design solutions
Training

21. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

22. Ability Differences in Multitasking
Differences in Working Memory
Molecular Genetics and Individual Differences in Cognition
Brain Computer Interfaces for Healthy and Disabled Individuals