Objective: We describe major discoveries and developments in vigilance research.
Background: Vigilance tasks have typically been viewed as undemanding assignments …

Vigilance or sustained attention/vigilant attention refers to the ability of observers to maintain
their focus of attention and remain alert to stimuli over prolonged periods. A variety of …

Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, and Yiend (1997) proposed that the decline in
performance efficiency over time in vigilance tasks (the vigilance decrement) is …

Loss of vigilance may lead to impaired performance in various applied settings including
military operations, transportation, and industrial inspection. Individuals differ considerably …

Vigilance or sustained attention refers to the ability of observers to maintain their focus of
attention and remain alert to stimuli over prolonged periods of time (Warm, 1977, 1984 …

Objective: I explore the origins, theoretical underpinnings, applications, and importance of
vigilance in a world ever more dominated by semiautomated, automated, and autonomous …

The vigilance decrement has been described as a slowing in reaction times or an increase
in error rates as an effect of time-on-task during tedious monitoring tasks. This decrement …

Decrements over time in sustained attention (vigilance decrement) have been attributed to
filtering, reduced tonic arousal, neural habituation, and related factors. A recent taxonomic …

Despite a history of over 40 years and a vast amount of experimentation, vigilance research
has not had a palpable impact on real-world systems. The problem has been blamed in part …

Two models of recently reported high workload associated with vigilance tasks are the direct-
cost and indirect-cost views. The former attributes high workload to the need for continuous …