The Vigilance Decrement Reflects Limitations in Effortful Attention, Not Mindlessness

By Rebecca A. Grier, Joel S. Warm, W. N. Dember, Gerald Matthews, T. Galinsky, James L. Szalma, Raja Parasuraman. Hum. Factors, 2003

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Robert Langner
2. Gerald Matthews
3. Joel S. Warm
4. Simon B. Eickhoff
5. Michael Johns
6. Mark S. Young
7. Chad E. Forbes
8. Raja Parasuraman

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Gerald Matthews
2. Simon B. Eickhoff
3. Robert Langner
4. Raja Parasuraman
5. Joel S. Warm
6. Michael Johns
7. Mark S. Young
8. Chad E. Forbes

In Social Psychology

1. Gerald Matthews
2. T. Schmader
3. Joel S. Warm
4. Robert Langner
5. Simon B. Eickhoff
6. Raja Parasuraman
7. Michael Johns
8. Mark S. Young

Citations in the corpus

• Students pay attention! (2009, background): “Thus, as has been found in ergonomics (Grier et al., 2003; Matthews et al., 1993; Smit et al., 2004), concentration problems in the lecture theatre may be more due to depletion of attentional resources over time than due to boredom or underload.”
• How High is High? A Meta-Analysis of NASA-TLX Global Workload Scores (2015, background): “A low demand situation leads to complacency or the vigilance paradigm, both of which result in performance degradation (Grier, 2011; Grier et al., 2003).”
• Vigilance Requires Hard Mental Work and Is Stressful (2008, background): “The workload findings also led Grier et al. (2003) and Helton et al. (2005) to make a similar argument against a recent view suggested by Robertson and his colleagues (Manly, Robertson, Galloway, & Hawkins, 1999; Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, & Yiend, 1997) that the repetitive and tedious…”
• Sustaining attention to simple tasks: a meta-analytic review of the neural mechanisms of vigilant attention. (2013, background): “…anecdotal evidence and observations in the field by showing that sustaining attention to simple, monotonous tasks (i.e., VA) is perceived as effortful and highly demanding, inducing subjective strain or even fatigue over time (Grier et al., 2003; Szalma et al., 2004; Warm et al., 2008).”
• An integrated process model of stereotype threat effects on performance. (2008, background): “With respect to the vigilance aspect of this process, even basic research on sustained attention suggests that remaining vigilant to cues in the immediate environment is an effortful cognitive process (Grier et al., 2003).”