Attention lapses and behavioural microsleeps during tracking, psychomotor vigilance, and dual tasks

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 174-183

  Buckley, Russell J ^a,b   Helton, William S ^b   Innes, Carrie R H ^a,b,c   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a,b,d   Jones, Richard D ^a,b,c,e  

^a NEW ZEALAND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d Universities of Auckland and Otago   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention lapse; Behavioural microsleep; Psychomotor vigilance task; Resource depletion; Task complexity; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; TIME; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; TIME; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84986540220     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Anderson, C., Wales, A.W.J., Horne, J.A., PVT lapses differ according to eyes open, closed, or looking away. Sleep 33:2 (2010), 197–204.
2. Chee, M.W., Tan, J.C., Zheng, H., Parimal, S., Weissman, D.H., Zagorodnov, V., Dinges, D.F., Lapsing during sleep deprivation is associated with distributed changes in brain activation. Journal of Neuroscience 28:21 (2008), 5519–5528.
3. Cheyne, J.A., Carriere, J.S.A., Smilek, D., Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal 15:3 (2006), 578–592.
4. Dinges, D.F., Powell, J.P., Microcomputer analysis of performance on a portable, simple visual RT task during sustained operation. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 17 (1985), 652–655.
5. Epling, S.L., Russell, P.N., Helton, W.S., A new semantic vigilance task: Vigilance decrement, workload, and sensitivity to dual-task costs. Experimental Brain Research 234:1 (2016), 133–139.
6. Hancock, P.A., Ganey, H.C.N., From the inverted-U to the extended-U: The evolution of a law of psychology. Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments 7:1 (2003), 5–14.
7. Harrison, Y., Horne, J.A., Occurrence of ’microsleeps’ during daytime sleep onset in normal subjects. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 98:5 (1996), 411–416.
8. Helton, W.S., Russell, P.N., Feature absence–presence and two theories of lapses of sustained attention. Psychological Research Psychologische Forschung 75:5 (2011), 384–392.
9. Helton, W.S., Russell, P.N., Brief mental breaks and content-free cues may not keep you focused. Experimental Brain Research 219:1 (2012), 37–46.
10. Helton, W.S., Warm, J.S., Signal salience and the mindlessness theory of vigilance. Acta Psychologica 129:1 (2008), 18–25.
11. Innes, C.R.H., Poudel, G.R., Jones, R.D., Efficient and regular patterns of nighttime sleep are related to increased vulnerability to microsleeps following a single night of sleep restriction. Chronobiology International 30:9 (2013), 1187–1196.
12. Laguë-Beauvais, M., Fraser, S.A., Desjardins-Crépeau, L., Castonguay, N., Desjardins, M., Lesage, F., Bherer, L., Shedding light on the effect of priority instructions during dual-task performance in younger and older adults: A fNIRS study. Brain and Cognition 98 (2015), 1–14.
13. Langner, R., Eickhoff, S.B., Sustaining attention to simple tasks: A meta-analytic review of the neural mechanisms of vigilant attention. Psychological Bulletin 139:4 (2013), 870–900.
14. Lim, J., Dinges, D.F., Sleep deprivation and vigilant attention. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1129 (2008), 305–322.
15. Mackworth, N.H., The breakdown of vigilance durning prolonged visual search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 1:1 (1948), 6–21.
16. Manly, T., Robertson, I.H., Galloway, M., Hawkins, K., The absent mind: Further investigations of sustained attention to response. Neuropsychologia 37:6 (1999), 661–670.
17. Matthews, G., Warm, J.S., Reinerman-Jones, L.E., Langheim, L.K., Washburn, D.A., Tripp, L., Task engagement, cerebral blood flow velocity, and diagnostic monitoring for sustained attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology 16:2 (2010), 187–203.
18. Matthews, G., Warm, J.S., Reinerman, L.E., Langheim, L.K., Saxby, D.J., Task engagement, attention, and executive control. Gruszka, A., Matthews, G., Szymura, B., (eds.) Handbook of individual differences in cognition: Attention, memory, and executive control, 2010, Springer Science, New York, NY, US, 205–230.
19. McGinley, M.J., David, S.V., McCormick, D.A., Cortical membrane potential signature of optimal states for sensory signal detection. Neuron 87:1 (2015), 179–192.
20. Neiss, R., Reconceptualizing arousal: Psychobiological states in motor performance. Psychological Bulletin 103:3 (1988), 345–366.
21. Parasuraman, R., Warm, J., Dember, W., Vigilance: Taxonomy and Utility. Mark, L., Warm, J., Huston, R., (eds.) Ergonomics and human factors, 1987, Springer, New York, 11–32.
22. Peiris, M.T.R., Davidson, P.R., Bones, P.J., Jones, R.D., Detection of lapses in responsiveness from the EEG. Journal of Neural Engineering 8:1 (2011), 1–15.
23. Peiris, M.T.R., Jones, R.D., Davidson, P.R., Carroll, G.J., Bones, P.J., Frequent lapses of responsiveness during an extended visuomotor tracking task in non-sleep deprived subjects. Journal of Sleep Research 15:3 (2006), 291–300.
24. Poudel, G.R., Innes, C.R.H., Bones, P.J., Watts, R., Jones, R.D., Losing the struggle to stay awake: Divergent thalamic and cortical activity during microsleeps. Human Brain Mapping 35:1 (2014), 257–269.
25. Poudel, G.R., Jones, R.D., Innes, C.R.H., A 2-D pursuit tracking task for behavioural detection of lapses. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 31:4 (2008), 528–529.
26. Randall, J.G., Oswald, F.L., Beier, M.E., Mind-wandering, cognition, and performance: A theory-driven meta-analysis of attention regulation. Psychological Bulletin 140:6 (2014), 1411–1431.
27. Robertson, I.H., Manly, T., Andrade, J., Baddeley, B.T., Yiend, J., ’Oops!’: Performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects. Neuropsychologia 35:6 (1997), 747–758.
28. Robertson, I.H., O'Connell, R., Vigilant attention. Nobre, A.C., Coull, J.T., (eds.) Attention and time, 2010, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 79–88.
29. Smallwood, J.M., Schooler, J.W., The restless mind. Psychological Bulletin 132:6 (2006), 946–958.
30. Thomson, D.R., Besner, D., Smilek, D., A resource-control account of sustained attention: Evidence from mind-wandering and vigilance paradigms. Perspectives on Psychological Science 10:1 (2015), 82–96.
31. Warm, J.S., Dember, W.N., Tests of vigilance taxonomy. Hoffman, R.R., Sherrick, M.F., Warm, J.S., (eds.) Viewing psychology as a whole: The integrative science of William N. Dember, 1998, American Psychological Association, 87–112.
32. Wierwille, W.W., Ellsworth, L.A., Evaluation of driver drowsiness by trained raters. Accident Analysis & Prevention 26:5 (1994), 571–581.
33. Yerkes, R.M., Dodson, J.D., The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation. Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology 18:5 (1908), 459–482.