Abstract
This paper outlines a methodology that can be used to investigate the selectivity patterns of heat stress effects. The adopted view is that heat stress causes performance to deteriorate because it depletes attentional resources. The term “selectivity” refers to the extent to which certain individual resource pools (the existence of which is postulated by multiple resource theories) are more susceptible to heat stress effects than others. The methodology consists of plotting performance of two time-shared tasks over time on the Performance Operating Characteristic (POC) space. Manipulating the difficulties of the paired tasks under the same environmental conditions (i.e., temperature level and exposure duration) produces a predictable change of the POC path. In particular, if the heat stress effects are non-selective, the POC path will rotate either clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on the task whose difficulty is increased. On the contrary, if the heat stress effects are selective, increasing the difficulty of a task will have no effect on the orientation of the POC path.
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