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...

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Publicado en:Human Factors Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 132 - 142
Autores principales: Helton WS, Russell PN, Helton, William S, Russell, Paul N
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Apr2011
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