Stress Workload and Fatigue

<p>The purpose of this volume is to seek out describe and explain the shared commonalities of stress fatigue and workload. To understand and predict human performance response we have to reach beyond the sterile information-processing models to incorporate the emotive affective or more generally energetic aspects of cognition. These facets of behavior surface most readily when the individual acts under stress is faced by significant cognitive workload or is in the grip of fatigue. However energetic characteristics are pervasive and exert a vital and ubiquitous influence even when they are not obviously in play as in extreme circumstances. Indeed one cannot hope to understand behavior without their inclusion and integration into models and theories. This text addresses such theoretical questions as one of its main thrusts. However in addition to the drive for scientific understanding there are requirements in our progressively more utilitarian society which generate the need for a more fundamental understanding of this particular topic.</p>