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 …

Conscious appraisals of stress, or stress states, are an important aspect of human
performance. This article presents evidence supporting the validity and measurement …

Cognitive engineering is the application of cognitive psychology and related disciplines to
the design and operation of human–machine systems. Cognitive engineering combines …

It is well known that when human observers must monitor for rare but critical events,
probability of detection tends to wane over time, a phenomenon known as the “vigilance …

In this report, we examined the impact of rest breaks and goal switches on the vigilance
decrement—the change in performance with time-on-task—and subjective stress and …

We examined whether the sustained attention to response task is a better measure of
response inhibition or sustained attention. Participants performed a number detection task …

The dominant theory amongst vigilance researchers is resource theory. From this theoretical
perspective the increase in lapses with time on task, the vigilance decrement, is due to the …

The impact of street lighting on the visual tasks of pedestrians is well known, as are studies
that have explored the relationship between street lighting and pedestrians' feelings of …

Prolonged demands on the attention system can cause a decay in performance over time
known as the time-on-task effect. The inter-subject differences in the rate of this decline are …

The abbreviated vigilance task can quickly generate vigilance decrements, which has been
argued is due to depletion of cognitive resources needed to sustain performance …