The opportunities and challenges of the first three years of open up, an online text-based counselling service for youth and young adults

PSF Yip, WL Chan, CS Chan, L He, Y Xu… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
We present the opportunities and challenges of Open Up, a free, 24/7 online text-based
counselling service to support youth in Hong Kong. The number of youths served more than …

Individual differences in the intensity and consistency of attention

N Unsworth, AL Miller - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Individual differences in attention abilities predict performance in a number of domains. We
suggest that two aspects of attention are especially important for variation in attention …

Are individual differences in attention control related to working memory capacity? A latent variable mega-analysis.

N Unsworth, AL Miller, MK Robison - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The current study examined whether there are coherent individual differences in attention
control abilities and whether they are related to variation in working memory capacity. Data …

Mind-wandering when studying valuable information: The roles of age, dispositional traits, and contextual factors.

AL Miller, AD Castel - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The factors that trigger lapses of attention (eg, mind-wandering) during new learning remain
unclear. The present study investigated whether the likelihood of experiencing an attentional …

Pupillary correlates of preparatory control in the Stroop task

N Unsworth, AL Miller - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 - Springer
In three experiments, individual differences in preparatory control in the Stroop task were
examined. Participants performed variants of the Stroop task while pupillary responses were …

Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability

AL Miller, N Unsworth - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study examined how variation in the amount of attention devoted to items
(intensity) and the consistency with which attention is maintained on task (consistency) are …

Cognition and lifeguard detection performance

BT Sharpe, MS Smith, SCR Williams… - Applied cognitive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Two experiments aimed to determine whether working memory capacity (WMC) and high‐
order executive functions predict drown detection performance and maintenance under …

Mobilizing effort to reduce lapses of sustained attention: examining the effects of content-free cues, feedback, and points

N Unsworth, MK Robison, AL Miller - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2024 - Springer
Three experiments with the psychomotor vigilance task examined whether presenting
content-free cues, feedback, and points would reduce lapses of sustained attention. In all …

Pupillometry and the vigilance decrement: Task‐evoked but not baseline pupil measures reflect declining performance in visual vigilance tasks

JT Martin, AH Whittaker… - European journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Baseline and task‐evoked pupil measures are known to reflect the activity of the nervous
system's central arousal mechanisms. With the increasing availability, affordability and …

Oculometric indicators of individual differences in preparatory control during the antisaccade task.

N Unsworth, AL Miller, MK Robison - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Individual differences in preparatory control in the antisaccade task were examined in two
experiments via an examination of pupillary responses and fixation stability during the …