Effects of attention awakening on learning characteristics in manual control system.

Accession number;00A0274765
Title;Effects of attention awakening on learning characteristics in manual control system.
Author; SUENAGA OSAMU (Shizuoka Univ., Fac. of Eng.)
Journal Title;Japanese Journal of Ergonomics
Journal Code:S0258A
ISSN:0549-4974
VOL.36;NO.1;PAGE.1-9(2000)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.7, TBL.1, REF.12
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;This study deals with the effect of attention awakened by an auditory stimulus on human learning characteristics in a manual control system, as a basic study for constructing a training system which utilizes human cognitive characteristics. Based on knowledge that the focal attention increases both the sensitivity of perception and the processing speed, the training, which awakens a trainee to attention for the occurrence of some specific reference signal, is tried. The reference signal was made by repeating the identical random signal five times. The auditory stimulus was presented to the trainee immediately before the third signal occurred. Such training was repeatedly imposed on the trainee. It was confirmed that the auditory stimulus was effective for the improvement on the control performance not only for the signal in which the auditory stimulus was presented but also for other signals. However, the improvement speed of the performance differed on each signal. It was concluded that these differences might be caused by the type of attention (passive and active attention) and that the existence of these types of attention contributed to the effective control improvement. (author abst.)
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