Staying attentive is challenging enough when carrying out everyday tasks, such as reading
or sitting through a lecture, and failures to do so can be frustrating and inconvenient …

Maintaining attention for more than a few seconds is essential for mastering everyday life.
Yet, our ability to stay focused on a particular task is limited, resulting in well-known …

Models of attention often distinguish among attention subtypes, with classic models
separating orienting, switching, and sustaining functions. Compared with other forms of …

The objective of this review was to examine the evidence for the link between fatigue and
safety, especially in transport and occupational settings. For the purposes of this review …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

Despite growing recognition that attention fluctuates from moment-to-moment during
sustained performance, prevailing analysis strategies involve averaging data across …

Mind wandering is a pervasive threat to transportation safety, potentially accounting for a
substantial number of crashes and fatalities. In the current study, mind wandering was …

Sustained attention, often referred to as vigilance in humans, is the ability to maintain goal-
directed behavior for extended periods of time and respond to intermittent targets in the …

The current meta-analysis accumulates empirical findings on the phenomenon of mind-
wandering, integrating and interpreting findings in light of psychological theories of cognitive …

We newly propose that the vigilance decrement occurs because the cognitive control system
fails to maintain active the goal of the vigilance task over prolonged periods of time (goal …