Highlights•Numerous neurocognitive factors contribute to sustained attention.•Attention
fluctuates alongside shifting arousal, effort, and resource allocation.•An information …

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 …

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

The psychological construct 'sustained attention'describes a fundamental component of
attention characterized by the subject's readiness to detect rarely and unpredictably …

Rationale. The developmental history and application of the 5-choice serial reaction time
task (5CSRTT) for measuring effects of drugs and other manipulations on attentional …

A model for conceptualizing the components or elements of attention is presented. The
model substitutes for the diffuse and global concept of “attention” a group of four processes …

Routine inspection and maintenance are critical for the proper functioning of civil
infrastructures such as bridges, pavements and underground structures. Civil infrastructures …

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 …

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and
accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory …

Previous efforts aimed at attributing discrete behavioral functions to cortical cholinergic
afferents have not resulted in a generally accepted hypothesis about the behavioral …