Individual differences in vigilance: Personality, ability and states of stress

TH Shaw, G Matthews, JS Warm, VS Finomore… - Journal of Research in …, 2010 - Elsevier
Vigilance is notoriously hard to predict from personality measures. This study adopted a new
multivariate approach based on attentional resource theory. Measures were taken of the …

Predicting vigilance: A fresh look at an old problem

V Finomore, G Matthews, T Shaw, J Warm - Ergonomics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Individual differences in vigilance are ubiquitous and relevant to a variety of work
environments in industrial, transportation, medical and security settings. Despite much …

Vigilance: A perceptual challenge.

JS Warm, VS Finomore, MA Vidulich, ME Funke - 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Vigilance requires hard mental work and is stressful

JS Warm, R Parasuraman, G Matthews - Human factors, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: We describe major discoveries and developments in vigilance research.
Background: Vigilance tasks have typically been viewed as undemanding assignments …

Sustained attention: A multifactorial approach

R Parasuraman - Attention and performance XI, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Decrements over time in sustained attention (vigilance decrement) have been attributed to
filtering, reduced tonic arousal, neural habituation, and related factors. A recent taxonomic …

The vigilance decrement reflects limitations in effortful attention, not mindlessness

RA Grier, JS Warm, WN Dember, G Matthews… - Human …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, and Yiend (1997) proposed that the decline in
performance efficiency over time in vigilance tasks (the vigilance decrement) is …

Vigilance, workload, and stress

JS Warm, G Matthews… - Performance under stress, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Task engagement and attentional resources: Multivariate models for individual differences and stress factors in vigilance

G Matthews, JS Warm, AP Smith - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Two studies tested multivariate models of relationships between subjective task
engagement and vigilance. The second study included a stress factor (cold infection) …

The sustained attention to response task (SART) does not promote mindlessness during vigilance performance

MB Dillard, JS Warm, GJ Funke, ME Funke… - Human …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective In this study, we evaluated the validity of the Sustained Attention to Response
Task (SART) as a means for promoting mindlessness in vigilance performance. Background …

Psychometric curves reveal three mechanisms of vigilance decrement

JS McCarley, Y Yamani - Psychological science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The vigilance decrement is a decline in signal detection rate that occurs over time on a
sustained-attention task. The effect has typically been ascribed to conservative shifts of …