In this work, we evaluate the status of both theory and empirical evidence in the field of
experimental rest-break research based on a framework that combines mental-chronometry …

Attention is a pivotal cognitive function and efforts to understand its properties and
operations are fundamental. Building upon the best known taxonomy of attention put forward …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that
people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their …

Attention comprises a wide set of processes such as phasic alertness, orienting, executive
control, and the executive (ie, detecting infrequent targets) and arousal (ie, sustaining a fast …

Background Vigilance is generally understood as the ability to detect infrequent critical
events through long time periods. In tasks like the Sustained Attention to Response Task …

Fatigue in radiologists may be responsible for a large number of medical errors. This review
describes the latest research on fatigue in radiology. This includes measurement methods …

Over the past few years, there has been growing interest in using online methods for
collecting data from large samples. However, only a few studies have administered online …

Objective The present study compared the performance, workload, and stress associated
with driver vigilance in two types of vehicle: a traditional, manually operated vehicle, and a …

Objective We investigated secondary–task–based countermeasures to the vigilance
decrement during a simulated partially automated driving (PAD) task, with the goal of …