Signal Regularity and the Mindlessness Model of Vigilance
Citation:
Helton, W.S., Hollander, T.D., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., Dember, W.N., Wallaart, M., Beauchamp, G., Parasuraman, R., & Hancock, P.A. (2005). Signal regularity and the mindlessness model of vigilance. British Journal of Psychology, 96(2), 249-261.
Abstract:
Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, and Yiend (1997) have proposed that detection failures in vigilance tasks result from a ‘mindless’ withdrawal of attentional effort from the monitoring assignment.