Vigilance impossible: Diligence, distraction, and daydreaming all lead to failures in a practical monitoring task

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-41

  Casner, Stephen M ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline pilots; Cockpit; Distraction; Divided attention; Mind wandering; Monitoring; Task unrelated thought; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE PILOT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYDREAMING; DISTRACTION; DIVIDED ATTENTION; DREAMING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; MONITOR; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVIATION; FANTASY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVIATION; FANTASY; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928940894     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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