Maintaining attention for more than a few seconds is essential for mastering everyday life.
Yet, our ability to stay focused on a particular task is limited, resulting in well-known …

Boredom is frequently considered inconsequential and has received relatively little research
attention. We argue that boredom has important implications for human functioning, based …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

Objective: We describe major discoveries and developments in vigilance research.
Background: Vigilance tasks have typically been viewed as undemanding assignments …

Objective: The aim of this study was to distill and define those influences under which
change in objective performance level and the linked cognitive workload reflections of …

Sustained attention, often referred to as vigilance in humans, is the ability to maintain goal-
directed behavior for extended periods of time and respond to intermittent targets in the …

When someone asks,“How do you feel?”, your answer includes your bodily feelings as well
as your emotional feelings. Influential models of emotion view the embodiment of emotions …

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and
accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory …

All members of the higher education community share the important goal of fostering college
students' motivation to learn. Which contemporary constructs best explain students' …