The Breakdown of Vigilance during Prolonged Visual Search.

Mackworth, N. H. (1948). The Breakdown of Vigilance during Prolonged Visual Search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1(1), 6-21.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1948

DOI

10.1080/17470214808416738

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/17470214808416738

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cognitive_science

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• Alertness
  • In cognitive science, the vigilance literature treats it as a measurable, manipulable capacity that degrades with time-on-task (the vigilance decrement).

    This sourceFoundational vigilance-decrement study (the Clock Test), establishing that detection performance degrades measurably with time-on-task.

• Attentional Capacity
  • Selection bandwidth depletes under sustained demand (the vigilance decrement: signal-detection performance falls reliably within the first 30 minutes of a monitoring task, a finding Mackworth (1948) first established in radar-watch studies and that has replicated across substrates including air-traffic control and quality inspection).

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