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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Performance

Background:

  • Sustained attention is crucial for many tasks.
  • The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) is a common tool to measure attention.
  • Understanding factors influencing SART performance, like cognitive strategies and thought patterns, is important.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how performance, task-related thoughts (TRT), and task-unrelated thoughts (TUT) change over repeated SART sessions.
  • To explore the relationship between commission errors and conscious thought patterns during the SART.
  • To examine the validity of the SART in measuring executive motor control and response strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Eighteen participants completed a modified manual selection SART weekly for four weeks.
  • A conscious thought questionnaire was administered alongside the SART.
  • Analysis focused on response times, commission errors, TRT, and TUT at between- and within-subject levels.

Main Results:

  • Response times and commission errors showed an oscillating pattern across sessions.
  • Increased speed on the SART was associated with a higher rate of commission errors.
  • No significant relationship was found between commission errors and TRT or TUT.

Conclusions:

  • SART performance changes may reflect the adoption of motor strategies rather than shifts in attentional focus or cognitive load.
  • Commission errors in the SART might be more indicative of executive motor control and response strategy than perceptual decoupling.
  • Conscious thought patterns (TRT/TUT) do not appear to directly predict SART commission errors in this study.