Development of Information Theory Concepts and Equations for Human Mental Processing.

Abstract

This report presents the research and analysis accomplished in order to develop new concepts of information theory and new equations that could allow the researcher to compute with more precision, the amount of information processed by a subject during the execution of a sequential mental task. A very sophisticated piece of equipment was used in order to simulate a sequential task of military nature. The results of the experiment proved that new equations to compute the amount of information processed should be used when the task to be performed implies that the oeprator has to go through different levels of 'thinking' before he reacts to a stimulus. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA068606

Entities

People

  • Jose Alberto Martinez

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Theory
  • Military Operations
  • Motor Skills
  • Operations Research
  • Precision
  • Reaction Time
  • Regression Analysis
  • Schools
  • Systems Engineering
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.