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  • Decision Science
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Distracting information impacts cognitive and perceptual processes influencing decision-making.
  • A recent study introduced resilience, a response time-based measure for quantifying distraction effects.
  • Previous analyses of resilience were limited to qualitative comparisons.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply statistical procedures from workload capacity analysis to resilience functions.
  • To introduce null-hypothesis testing for resilience functions.
  • To develop a method for analyzing functional differences in resilience across conditions and participants.

Main Methods:

  • Application of workload capacity analysis statistical procedures.
  • Development of a null-hypothesis testing framework for resilience functions.
  • Utilizing functional principal components analysis (FPCA) for analyzing resilience function forms.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the applicability of workload capacity analysis to resilience functions.
  • Presented a statistically rigorous approach for testing resilience.
  • Established an FPCA-based method for comparing resilience functions.

Conclusions:

  • Statistical workload capacity analysis provides a quantitative framework for studying resilience.
  • The developed methods enable objective hypothesis testing and functional comparisons of resilience.
  • These advancements offer deeper insights into cognitive and perceptual processes affected by distractors.