Samenvatting
Fields of human experimental psychology concerned with information-processing have been intensely active over the last decade. This book gives in several chapters the development of research and theory chronologically. The chapters are: I) Components of the scene; II) Vigilance: results with traditional measures; III) Vigilance: the approach with measures from decision theory; IV) some necessary preliminaries on the nature of the auditory system; V) Selective perception; VI) Reaction to stimuli occurring with different probabilities; VII) Speed of decisions; VIII) Primary memory; IX) Noise and other stresses; X) Speculations and plans.