The Development of Highly Practiced Skills: A Starting Point for Driver Modelling

Abstract

This report argues that in order to develop reliable intelligent interfaces in motor cars, a driver model should be developed which reflects human information processing mechanisms and, more specifically, mechanisms of skill acquisition, namely involuntary priming and voluntary preparation. On this basis three alternative models of skill acquisition are proposed that differ with respect to the effects of voluntary control at the perceptual and response level of information processing. Subjects carried out two-choice reactions in rapid succession. The most important experimental manipulations were (1) whether the first choice reaction predicted the second and (2) the degree of transfer of training to conditions where predictivity changed. In addition, stimulus presentation was for some subjects always visual and the second was auditory. (EMK)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 08, 1990
Accession Number
ADA230080

Entities

People

  • W. B. Verwey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Consistency
  • Contrast
  • Errors
  • European Communities
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Motor Skills
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.