Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Mental effort causes vigilance decrease due to resource depletion.

Annika S Smit1, Paul A T M Eling, Anton M L Coenen

  • 1NICI/Department of Biological Psychology, Montessorilaan 3, P.O. Box 9104, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. a.smit@nici.kun.nl

Acta Psychologica
|January 22, 2004
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

"Cinderella was attacked by the big bad wolf, but the police saved her": intrusions and confabulations on story recall in Korsakoff's syndrome and alcohol-related cognitive impairments.

Cognitive neuropsychiatry·2022
Same author

Resting-State Functional Connectivity Characteristics of Resilience to Traumatic Stress in Dutch Police Officers.

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience·2022
Same author

Deep-Breathing Biofeedback Trainability in a Virtual-Reality Action Game: A Single-Case Design Study With Police Trainers.

Frontiers in psychology·2022
Same author

Can a 'second disaster' during and after the COVID-19 pandemic be mitigated?

European journal of psychotraumatology·2020
Same author

Cortical Thickness in Dutch Police Officers: An Examination of Factors Associated with Resilience.

Journal of traumatic stress·2020
Same author

Dim light, sleep tight, and wake up bright - Sleep optimization in athletes by means of light regulation.

European journal of sport science·2020
Same journal

Exploring themes in music therapy: A scoping review.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same journal

Human-robot collaboration and customer-directed spillover: A daily diary study of state job apathy.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same journal

Feedback is associated with higher subjective values of n-Back levels in effort discounting.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same journal

Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in university students: Exploring the roles of neurotic perfectionism, parental perception, and stressful life events.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same journal

Tailoring instruction to personality: The mediating role of cognitive tendencies in the effect of extraversion on higher vocational college students' self-regulated learning.

Acta psychologica·2026
Same journal

Physical activity and loneliness in rural left-behind children: The mediating roles of social anxiety and self-concept.

Acta psychologica·2026
See all related articles

Vigilance performance declines with increased mental workload. Resource-demanding tasks, not necessarily long ones, impact performance most, suggesting cognitive resource limitations.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Performance

Background:

  • Vigilance performance is crucial in many real-world tasks.
  • Theories on vigilance decline include resource depletion and arousal fluctuations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the resource view of vigilance performance.
  • To differentiate between the effects of monotony and mental workload on vigilance.

Main Methods:

  • Compared low-demand tasks with and without irrelevant stimuli.
  • Assessed performance differences between low-demand and high-demand tasks.

Main Results:

  • Adding irrelevant stimuli to a low-demand task did not affect performance.
  • A high-demand task significantly decreased vigilance performance compared to a low-demand task.

Related Experiment Videos

Conclusions:

  • Vigilance decrement is primarily linked to high mental workload and resource demands.
  • Vigilance tasks should be designed as resource-demanding but not necessarily prolonged.