Sustained Attention in Auditory and Visual Monitoring Tasks

Arrabito, G. Robert; Ho, Geoffrey; Aghaei, Behzad; Burns, Catherine M.; Hou, Ming

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“…Attention can be captured by sounds whose sources are distant, around corners, obscured, or occur in the dark. Salient sounds are a potent source for attention capture and highly conserved across species (Jerison, 1973; Sokolov, 1963), and audition is generally more resistant to vigilance decrements relative to vision (Arrabito, Ho, Aghaei, Burns, & Hou, 2015). Attention may also be more focused on visual inputs relative to other modalities, possibly to make-up for poor visual alerting functions (Posner, Nissen, & Klein, 1976).…”

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Auditory spatial attention capture, disengagement, and response selection in normal aging

Golob

Mock

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Attention control is a core element of cognitive aging, but the specific mechanisms that differ with age are unclear. Here we used a novel auditory spatial attention task to evaluate stimulus processing at the level of early attention capture, later response selection, and lingering effects of attention capture across trials in young and older adults. We found that the shapes of spatial attention capture gradients were remarkably similar in young and older adults, but only the older group had lingering effects of attention capture on the next trial. Response selection for stimulus-response incompatibilities took longer in older subjects, but primarily when attending to the midline location. The results suggest that the likelihood and spatial tuning of attention capture is comparable among groups, but once attention is captured, older subjects take longer to disengage. Age differences in response selection were supported, but may not be a general feature of cognitive aging.

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Auditory spatial attention capture, disengagement, and response selection in normal aging

Golob

Mock

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Future vigilance studies should not involve resting breaks during the acquisition. Resting break during a period of continuous monitoring is an effective countermeasure for restoring the performance in auditory and visual vigilance tasks [37]. Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain whether the improvements were due to the resting break or from the enhancers.…”

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“…Reports of other unconventional (Unconventional means of enhancement are methods involving deliberately created nootropic drugs, neural implants, brain–computer interface and other new senses.) and more contemporary means of vigilance enhancers have also been reported, such as pharmaceuticals [25]; video games [26,27]; transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) [28,29,30,31,32,33]; tactile and rhythmic haptics [34,35,36,37]; integrating new challenges into the primary task [38]; music [39,40]; and binaural auditory beats [41,42]. Resulting studies have reported contradictory findings regarding the efficacy of the aforementioned enhancement techniques, which have hampered the progress of further investigations.…”

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Vigilance Decrement and Enhancement Techniques: A Review

Al-Shargie

Tariq

et al. 2019

Brain Sciences

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This paper presents the first comprehensive review on vigilance enhancement using both conventional and unconventional means, and further discusses the resulting contradictory findings. It highlights the key differences observed between the research findings and argues that variations of the experimental protocol could be a significant contributing factor towards such contradictory results. Furthermore, the paper reveals the effectiveness of unconventional means of enhancement in significant reduction of vigilance decrement compared to conventional means. Meanwhile, a discussion on the challenges of enhancement techniques is presented, with several suggested recommendations and alternative strategies to maintain an adequate level of vigilance for the task at hand. Additionally, this review provides evidence in support of the use of unconventional means of enhancement on vigilance studies, regardless of their practical challenges.

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“…Abbreviations: SRM = self-reported measures, PER = performance measures, PHY = physiological measures. Applied Measurement MethodsAuthorYearCountrySiteWork/TaskSample SizeDaysTime-on-TaskObjectHypothesisTheory/ModelSRMPERPHY Arrabito et al [53] 2011 CanadaLabMental98140 minActivitynonoyesyes Arrabito et al [54] 2015 CanadaLabMental150140 minActivityyesyesyesyes Balci and Aghazadeh [55,56,57] 2000 (2003, 2004) USALabMental101120 minRegimen…”

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Methods in Experimental Work Break Research: A Scoping Review

Scholz

Wendsche

Ghadiri

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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The number of studies on work breaks and the importance of this subject is growing rapidly, with research showing that work breaks increase employees’ wellbeing and performance and workplace safety. However, comparing the results of work break research is difficult since the study designs and methods are heterogeneous and there is no standard theoretical model for work breaks. Based on a systematic literature search, this scoping review included a total of 93 studies on experimental work break research conducted over the last 30 years. This scoping review provides a first structured evaluation regarding the underlying theoretical framework, the variables investigated, and the measurement methods applied. Studies using a combination of measurement methods from the categories “self-report measures,” “performance measures,” and “physiological measures” are most common and to be preferred in work break research. This overview supplies important information for ergonomics researchers allowing them to design work break studies with a more structured and stronger theory-based approach. A standard theoretical model for work breaks is needed in order to further increase the comparability of studies in the field of experimental work break research in the future.

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Sustained Attention in Auditory and Visual Monitoring Tasks

Abstract: Potential applications of this research include procedures for decreasing the temporal decline in observer performance and the high mental workload imposed by vigilance tasks.

Cited by 37 publications

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Auditory spatial attention capture, disengagement, and response selection in normal aging

Auditory spatial attention capture, disengagement, and response selection in normal aging

Vigilance Decrement and Enhancement Techniques: A Review

Methods in Experimental Work Break Research: A Scoping Review

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