Combating vigilance decrements in a sustained attention task: Lack of support for the utility of a cognitive intervention secondary task

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1446-1450

  Carretta, Thomas R ^a   French, Guy A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE TASK; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; REAL-WORLD TASK; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TARGET ACQUISITION; VIGILANCE DECREMENT;

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84873417305     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181312561407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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