ArticleeLife2021
Neural signatures of vigilance decrements predict behavioural errors before they occur.
Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Vigilance decrements in air traffic control as an aviation safety risk: a systematic review of modeling and prediction approaches.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026Pooled it
- Long-range and cross-frequency neural modulation of gamma flicker on vigilance decrement.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Maximum Object Category Information and Behavioral Prediction in Multiscale Activation Patterns.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Caveats and Nuances of Model-Based and Model-Free Representational Connectivity Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Perceptual difficulty modulates the direction of information flow in familiar face recognition.NeuroImage · 2021Article
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Abstract
There are many monitoring environments, such as railway control, in which lapses of attention can have tragic consequences. Problematically, sustained monitoring for rare targets is difficult, with more misses and longer reaction times over time. What changes in the brain underpin these 'vigilance decrements'? We designed a multiple-object monitoring (MOM) paradigm to examine how the neural representation of information varied with target frequency and time performing the task. Behavioural performance decreased over time for the rare target (monitoring) condition, but not for a frequent target (active) condition. This was mirrored in neural decoding using magnetoencephalography: coding of critical information declined more during monitoring versus active conditions along the experiment. We developed new analyses that can predict behavioural errors from the neural data more than a second before they occurred. This facilitates pre-empting behavioural errors due to lapses in attention and provides new insight into the neural correlates of vigilance decrements.
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