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Cognitive Workload

Cognitive Workload is a psychological construct within human factors psychology that denotes the amount of mental effort required to perform a given task relative to the available cognitive resources of the individual.

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Variants

Mental Workload

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Nasa-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX); 20 Years Later

Sandra G. Hart · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2006 · 4.1K citations

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Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning

Richard E. Mayer, Roxana Moreno · Educational Psychologist · 2003 · 4.1K citations

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Cognitive load theory, learning difficulty, and instructional design

John Sweller · Learning and Instruction · 1994 · 3.6K citations

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Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir et al. · Science · 2013 · 2.9K citations

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Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments

Fred Paas, Alexander Renkl, John Sweller · Educational Psychologist · 2003 · 2.8K citations

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Authors

9.9K

  1. FP
    Fred Paas

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    47 publications · 20.5K citations

    43

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  2. JS
    John Sweller

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    40 publications · 23.6K citations

    36

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  3. JJ
    Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer

    Maastricht University, Netherlands

    28 publications · 12.6K citations

    25

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  4. CD
    Christopher D. Wickens

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    33 publications · 5K citations

    24

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  5. PA
    Peter A. Hancock

    University of Central Florida, United States

    22 publications · 2.1K citations

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Institutions

2.5K

  1. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    58 h-index

    181 publications

    37.6K citations

  2. Open University of the Netherlands

    Heerlen, The Netherlands

    40 h-index

    74 publications

    27.2K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    38 h-index

    116 publications

    14.9K citations

  4. Erasmus University Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    35 h-index

    65 publications

    15.1K citations

  5. Maastricht University

    Maastricht, The Netherlands

    31 h-index

    64 publications

    13.7K citations

  6. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    30 h-index

    101 publications

    9.4K citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    29 h-index

    95 publications

    7.2K citations

  8. University of Central Florida

    Orlando, United States

    28 h-index

    95 publications

    5.2K citations

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  2. Ergonomics

    130 publications · 10.9K citations

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  3. Educational Psychology Review

    44 publications · 12.6K citations

    36

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  4. Computers in Human Behavior

    49 publications · 5.4K citations

    33

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  5. Applied Ergonomics

    61 publications · 3.3K citations

    32

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