Human and Animal Vigilance
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 21 (2) , 580-582
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1965.21.2.580
Abstract
Experiments with both men and monkeys, summarized in this report, indicate that vigilance decrements are associated with the ease or difficulty of observing. A given set of signals may be detected often or rarely by human observers, depending on how easy it is to watch the background of stimulus events within which signals can occur.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Vigilance: The Importance of the Elicited Observing RateScience, 1964
- Vigilance: A Review and Re-evaluationHuman Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1963
- THE EFFECT OF ‘UNWANTED’ SIGNALS ON PERFORMANCE IN A VIGILANCE TASKErgonomics, 1961