Brief and rare mental "breaks" keep you focused: Deactivation and reactivation of task goals preempt vigilance decrements

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 439-443

  Ariga, Atsunori ^a   Lleras, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal habituation; Task switching; Vigilance decrement

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GOALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960968488     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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