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I poked around myself and the earliest use of the term I can find is in an article from 1968: Pupil size and problem solving JL Bradshaw The Quarterly J

by pg 13y ago

I poked around myself and the earliest use of the term I can find is in an article from 1968: Pupil size and problem solving JL Bradshaw The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1968 Of course when I tried to read the text of the article, I got a message saying Sorry, you do not have access to this article. How to gain access: Recommend to your librarian that your institution purchase access to this publication.

staunch 13y ago
Here's one from 1970 http://books.google.com/books?id=srxOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22cognitive+load%22&dq=%22cognitive+load%22 http://books.google.com/books?id=srxOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22cogni... If you search that book for "cognitive load is defined" you get the snippet: > "Cognitive load" is defined loosely as the amount of mental strain put on a person during the performance of some task, often at least partially due to the constraints placed on the performance of that task...
agilebyte 13y ago
"Pupil size changes were monitored during the solution of various types of problems. A number of solution and response strategies were required of the subject. There was strong confirmation of the theory that this autonomic index can provide a sensitive measure of the fluctuating levels of attention and arousal, which are associated with the various aspects of information processing and response." PDF link (bad quality): http://www.filedropper.com/article http://www.filedropper.com/article
mjn 13y ago
The related term "mental load" seems to be a few years older, coming mostly from precursors to HCI, such as industrial ergonomics. Here's a use from 1961, also paywalled, but with the abstract available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930502 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930502 It's also used in this 1961 paper, which looks at spare mental capacity of car drivers compared to the mental load imposed by various driving situations: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930505 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930505 Here's the crude Google ngrams view of some of the variant terms: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cognitive+load%2Ccognitive+workload%2Ccognitive+overhead%2Cmental+load%2Cmental+workload%2Cmental+overhead&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cognitive+load%... The "mental load" data is polluted by OCR errors like "supple- mental load" though, especially earlier on.
pekk 13y ago
It continues to be absolutely appalling what a large majority of academic work is locked away from the public.

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staunch 13y ago

Here's one from 1970 http://books.google.com/books?id=srxOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22cognitive+load%22&dq=%22cognitive+load%22 http://books.google.com/books?id=srxOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22cogni... If you search that book for "cognitive load is defined" you get the snippet: > "Cognitive load" is defined loosely as the amount of mental strain put on a person during the performance of some task, often at least partially due to the constraints placed on the performance of that task...

agilebyte 13y ago

"Pupil size changes were monitored during the solution of various types of problems. A number of solution and response strategies were required of the subject. There was strong confirmation of the theory that this autonomic index can provide a sensitive measure of the fluctuating levels of attention and arousal, which are associated with the various aspects of information processing and response." PDF link (bad quality): http://www.filedropper.com/article http://www.filedropper.com/article

mjn 13y ago

The related term "mental load" seems to be a few years older, coming mostly from precursors to HCI, such as industrial ergonomics. Here's a use from 1961, also paywalled, but with the abstract available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930502 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930502 It's also used in this 1961 paper, which looks at spare mental capacity of car drivers compared to the mental load imposed by various driving situations: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930505 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140136108930505 Here's the crude Google ngrams view of some of the variant terms: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cognitive+load%2Ccognitive+workload%2Ccognitive+overhead%2Cmental+load%2Cmental+workload%2Cmental+overhead&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cognitive+load%... The "mental load" data is polluted by OCR errors like "supple- mental load" though, especially earlier on.

pekk 13y ago

It continues to be absolutely appalling what a large majority of academic work is locked away from the public.