Personnel selection, training could mitigate effects of cognitive lock-up in automation operators

(Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) A paper published online in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society describes a correlation between an operator's working memory and ability to sustain attention and a phenomenon known as cognitive lock-up, when an individual focuses longer on an initial failure event than on subsequent failures.

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