ArticleExperimental brain research2018
You are measuring the decision to be fast, not inattention: the Sustained Attention to Response Task does not measure sustained attention.
Article in Experimental brain research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impaired disengagement from worry: Dissociating the impacts of valence and internally-directed attention.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- In search of exogenous feature-based attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Trial
- The effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on vigilance, cognition, and mood during military exercise with acute sleep deprivation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Strategy and Motivation, Rather Than Fatigue, Drive Age-Related Differences in Sustained Attention Performance: Evidence for Decoupled Beta-Band Oscillations.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural activity is altered by childhood trauma exposure and varied by sex in typically developing youths during sustained attention-to-response tasks (SART).Neuropsychologia · 2025Article
- Do scarcity-related cues affect the sustained attentional performance of the poor and the rich differently?Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- An examination of sustained attention during complex multitasking scenarios.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- "Automatic" online reach corrections are associated with individual differences in executive function.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Perceptual decoupling in the sustained attention to response task is indeed unlikely: a reply to Shelat and Geisbrecht (in press).Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Perceptual decoupling in the sustained attention to response task is likely: comment on Bedi, Russell, & Helton (2024).Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Perceptual decoupling in the sustained attention to response task is unlikely.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Perceptual decoupling or trigger happiness: the effect of response delays and shorter presentation times on a go-no-go task with a high go prevalence.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Response uncertainty influences response bias in the sustained attention to response task: a signal detection theory perspective.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Beyond detection rate: understanding the vigilance decrement using signal detection theory.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- A combined experimental-correlational approach to the construct validity of performance-based and self-report-based measures of sustained attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- How Do You Know If You Were Mind Wandering? Dissociating Explicit Memories of Off Task Thought From Subjective Feelings of Inattention.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Probing sustained attention and fatigue across the lifespan.PloS one · 2024Article
- Biomarkers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: current status and future prospects.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2023Review
- Go-stimuli probability influences response bias in the sustained attention to response task: a signal detection theory perspective.Psychological research · 2023Article
- The effects of real-time performance feedback and performance emphasis on the sustained attention to response task (SART).Psychological research · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) has been widely used in psychological literature as a measure of vigilance (the ability to sustain attention over a prolonged period of time). This task uses a Go/No-Go paradigm and requires the participants to repetitively respond to the stimuli as quickly and as accurately as possible. Previous literature indicates that performance in SART is subjected to a "speed-accuracy trade-off" (SATO) resulting from strategy choices and from the failures of controlling motor reflexes. In this study, 36 participants (n = 36) performed a series of four SARTs. The results support the perspective of strategy choice in SART and suggest that within-subjects SATO in SART should also be acknowledged in attempting to explain SART performance. The implications of the speed-accuracy trade-off should be fully understood when the SART is being used as a measure or tool.
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