The most salient electrical signal measured from the human brain is the α-rhythm, neural
activity oscillating at∼ 100ms intervals. Recent findings challenge the longstanding dogma …

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

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and wellbeing, yet is poorly
understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins …

The complex processing architecture underlying attentional control requires delineation of
the functional role of different control-related brain networks. A key component is the cingulo …

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

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological
science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be …

Komplexität und Dynamik prägen die heutige Arbeitswelt und erzeugen hohe
Anforderungen an die Leistungs-, Innovations-und Wandlungsfähigkeit der Unternehmen …

Understanding the factors underlying variation in attentional state is critical in a number of
domains. Here, we investigate the relation between time on task and mind wandering (ie, a …

The past decade has seen the development and testing of an increasingly large set of
ergonomics tools. With new sections in every chapter, the third edition of Introduction to …