Influence of critical signal regularity, stimulus event matrix, and cognitive style on vigilance performance.

Selection for vigilance assignments: a review and proposed new direction

“…Consistent with that view, they found a superior level of signal detection in Type As than Type Bs. Similarly, the idea that field independent individuals, as measured with the classic Rod and Frame test, are better able than field dependent individuals to focus on relevant aspects of the environment and ignore irrelevant features (Witkin et al 1954) primed experiments by Cahoon (1970), Moore and Gross (1973) and Ware and Baker (1977), which demonstrated the need to consider field dependence/independence as a selection dimension for vigilance since the performance of field-independent observers is superior to that of field-dependent observers.…”

Demand on mental workload: Relation to cue reactivity and craving in women with disordered eating and problematic drinking

“…While psychophysiolocal indices (e.g., heart rate, salivation, skin conductance) have been proposed as scientific measurements of craving, participants' subjective self-report that a craving is present/absence may affect findings (Cooney, Baker, Pomerleau, & Josephy, 1984;Kozlowski & Wilkinson, 1987;Laberg & Ellertsen, 1987;Nirenberg & Miller, 1982;Wooley & Wooley, 1973 Ballard (1996aBallard ( , 1996b identifies personality as the most significant individual difference in human factors research. Studies have reported that individual differences in human factors experiments can be explained by personality traits such as field dependence (Moore & Gross, 1973),…”

Vigilance: A Review of the Literature and Applications to Sentry Duty

“…The background event rate also has the capacity to influence the effects associated with other stimulus parameters. The effects of signal amplitude and signal regularity as well as the enduring effects of signal probability depend on the background event rate (Krulewitz & Warm, 1977;Metzger, Warm, & Senter, 1974;Moore & Gross, 1973). As Moore and Gross discovered, for instance, the benefits of intersignal regularity appeared late in the vigil under a slow event rate and early in the watch under a fast event rate.…”