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

Observers' perceptual sensitivity to critical target events can deteriorate when they must
remain alert for prolonged periods. The dominant characterization of this sensitivity …

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

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

When someone asks,“How do you feel?”, your answer includes your bodily feelings as well
as your emotional feelings. Influential models of emotion view the embodiment of emotions …

Abstract Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) are often comorbid and share behavioural-cognitive abnormalities in sustained …

This book presents a review of research on reaction processes and attention as it has
evolved over the last 40 years in the context of the information processing tradition in …

The better solution to the problem of monitoring inefficiency in the design of complex
systems might be to take advantage of psychophysical factors, which are known to enhance …

The present study was designed to explore whether sustained attention tasks can be
adequately described by a mindlessness perspective or a limited resource perspective. One …

This paper examines the current status of a taxonomy of vigilance that integrates several
critical aspects of performance as seen in the laboratory. Among these are (1) intertask and …