Most of us probably know the situation that we tried to navigate through a crowded space, let’s say a shopping street on a Saturday afternoon, and ended up forgetting some of our shopping list items, because we had to evade several obstacles in our way. This phenomenon is called cognitive-motor interference. It is due to the capacity limit of human cognitive resources that can be allocated to all the different processes our brain is calculating at any point in time.
PhD project: Mobile neuroergonomics weiterlesenAutor: Julian Elias Reiser
Julian Elias Reiser joined the IfADo ergonomics department in 2016 as a PhD student. He graduated in Psychology with a focus on Human Factors at the University of Ulm. In his research he investigates the influence of naturalistic environments and tasks on cognitive processes and workload using neurophysiological methods. Julian is generally interested in new advances in technology and how these impact the human mind and behavior.