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 …

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

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 …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Subjective state constructs are defined within the traditional domains of affect, motivation,
and cognition. Currently, there is no overarching state model that interrelates constructs …

The following literature review addresses the effects of various stressors on cognition. While
attempting to be as inclusive as possible, the review focuses its examination on the …

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 …

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

We have all had our thoughts wander from the immediate task at hand. The emerging
embodied cognition literature emphasizes the role that the body plays in human thought …

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 …