The effects of arousing negative and neutral picture stimuli on target detection in a vigilance task.
Objectives: The present study was designed to explore whether target detection in a vigilance task is influenced by task-irrelevant negative emotional and neutral picture stimuli and to test predictions derived from the boredom-mindlessness versus resource depletion accounts of vigilance performance...
| Publicado en: | Human Factors Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 132 - 142 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Apr2011
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