Information Processing in Vigilance Performance: Complexity Revisited

Several experiments are described showing that the vigilance decrement can be reversed or retarded by a suitable level of complexity in symbolic functions needed for critical signal detection. This effect is most likely based upon motivational rather than learning factors and is dependent upon the selection of a complex task that is no more capacity demanding than a simple one.

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