Effects of the rate and regularity of background events on sustained attention

Richter, David; Senter, R. J.; Warm, Joel S.

doi:10.3758/bf03333605

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“…As in previous investigations, performance efficiency in the present study was greater when the schedule of background events was temporally regular or synchronous than when it was temporally irregular or asynchronous, and performance efficiency declined over time on task (Richter et al, 1981;Scerbo et al, 1986;Scerbo et al, 1987).…”

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“…The background events can be scheduled to occur in a temporally regular and predictable manner, such as one event every 10 s, or in a temporally unpredictable manner in which, for example, the 10 s interval could represent the mean of a range of interevent intervals. Previous research has demonstrated that performance efficiency is higher when the schedule of background events is temporally regular or synchronous than when it is temporally irregular or asynchronous (Richter, Senter, & Warm, 1981;Scerbo, Warm, Doettling, Parasuraman, & Fisk, 1987;Scerbo, Warm, & Fisk, 1986), a result termed the event asynchrony effect.…”

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Effects of regular or irregular event schedules on cerebral hemovelocity during a sustained attention task

Shaw

Finomore

Warm

et al. 2012

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

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Transcranial Doppler sonography was used to measure bilateral cerebral blood flow velocity during sustained attention task performance where the background event schedule occurred in a synchronous (temporally regular) or asynchronous (temporally irregular) manner. Perceptual sensitivity was greater in the synchronous case and declined over time in both conditions. Blood flow velocity was greater in the more difficult asynchronous condition and declined over time in both conditions in the right hemisphere, but the decline in blood flow velocity was limited to the asynchronous condition in the left hemisphere. The results are interpreted in terms of a resource model of sustained attention.

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Effects of regular or irregular event schedules on cerebral hemovelocity during a sustained attention task

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Warm

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Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

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“…Accordingly, one might expect that the quality of sustained attention would be enhanced if the stimuli to be inspected for the possibility that they are critical signals occur irregularly or asynchronously in time instead of at regular intervals as is normally the case in vigilance experiments (e.g., once every second as in the Clock Test described above). Contrary to predictions from the model, asynchronous event schedules have been found to suppress rather than augment signal detection in vigilance tasks (Richter, Senter, & Warm, 1981;Scerbo, Warm, Doettling, Parasuraman, & Fisk, 1987;. Taken collectively, the weight of neurophysiological and psychophysical evidence suggests that the quality of vigilance performance cannot be accounted for in terms of the habituation of cortical responses to incoming stimuli.…”

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Effects of Signal Salience and Cueing on Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity during Sustained Attention

Hitchcock

2000

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Transcranial Doppler sonography, a low-cost noninvasive procedure, which allows continuous monitoring of blood flow in the left and right middle cerebral arteries, was employed while participants performed a 40-min vigil. Two levels of signal salience (high and low) were combined factorially with four conditions in which monitors were forewarned about the imminent arrival of critical signals (100 %, 80%, and 40% reliable cueing and a no-cue control). For both levels of signal salience, the frequency of signal detections remained stable over time in the 100% cue-reliability condition but declined over time in the remaining cue conditions, so that by the end of the vigil, performance efficiency was best in the 100% condition followed in order by the 80%, 40%, and nocue conditions. These performance effects for cueing were mirrored by blood flow measurements taken from the right hemisphere in conjunction with low salience signals.No effects for cueing were observable in blood flow recordings taken from the left hemisphere in conjunction with either high or low salience signals. The results indicate that blood flow and signal detection in vigilance are at least partially related to common mechanisms, such as the expenditure of information processing resources. They are also consistent with past findings indicating that vigilance performance is right lateralized.

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“…The phone call interruption was a radical change in sensory stimuli, hence could have been a dishabituation stimulus. Later, human vigilance researchers rejected sensory habituation as an explanation because of inconsistent physiological evidence (Jerison, 1970; Rohrbaugh et al, 1987) and because temporal uncertainty made the decrement more prominent in people (Adams & Boulter, 1964; Richter, Senter, & Warm, 1981). The latter finding is the opposite of sensory habituation, where the more temporally regular and predictable the sensory input is, the more likely habituation occurs (Laming & McKinney, 1990).…”

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Vigilance all the way down: Vigilance decrement in jumping spiders resembles that of humans

Melrose

Nelson

Dolev

et al. 2018

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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The inability to maintain signal detection performance with time on task, or vigilance decrement, is widely studied in people. Despite suggestions that limitations in sustained attention may be a fundamental characteristic of animal cognition, there has been limited research on the vigilance decrement in other animals. We conducted two experiments to explore vigilance in jumping spiders. Our first experiment established that the vigilance decrement, decline in signal detections with time on task, occurs in these spiders in laboratory settings. Our second experiment tested whether this phenomenon was simply the result of habituation of sensory receptors by employing two dishabituation manipulations. Neither dishabituation manipulation appeared to have an effect. Thus, the vigilance decrement in spiders appears to be due to something more than simply peripheral sensory habituation. We suggest that limitations in sustained attention may be a widespread phenomenon among animals that needs addressing when theorising about the vigilance decrement.

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Effects of the rate and regularity of background events on sustained attention

Cited by 15 publications

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Effects of regular or irregular event schedules on cerebral hemovelocity during a sustained attention task

Effects of regular or irregular event schedules on cerebral hemovelocity during a sustained attention task

Effects of Signal Salience and Cueing on Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity during Sustained Attention

Vigilance all the way down: Vigilance decrement in jumping spiders resembles that of humans

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