A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Sensitivity Loss in Modern Vigilance Tasks.

It is well known that when human observers must monitor for rare but critical events, probability of detection tends to wane over time, a phenomenon known as the "vigilance decrement." Over 60 years of empirical study on this topic has culminated in the general consensus that performance suffers due...

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Publicado en:	Psychological Review Vol. 123; no. 1; pp. 70 - 84
Autores principales:	Thomson, David R., Besner, Derek, Smilek, Daniel
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Psychological Association Jan2016
Materias:	Sensitivity (Personality trait) Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics) Vigilance (Psychology) Response styles (Examinations) Task analysis
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