↓ Skip to main content

Sustaining visual attention in the face of distraction: a novel gradual-onset continuous performance task

Overview of attention for article published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, January 2013
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

Mentioned by

twitter
2 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site

Citations

dimensions_citation
135 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
217 Mendeley
Title
Sustaining visual attention in the face of distraction: a novel gradual-onset continuous performance task
Published in
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, January 2013
DOI 10.3758/s13414-012-0413-x
Pubmed ID
Authors

Monica Rosenberg, Sarah Noonan, Joseph DeGutis, Michael Esterman

Abstract

Sustained attention is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and has been widely studied in applied and clinical contexts. Despite a growing understanding of how attention varies throughout task performance, moment-to-moment fluctuations are often difficult to assess. In order to better characterize fluctuations in sustained visual attention, in the present study we employed a novel continuous performance task (CPT), the gradual-onset CPT (gradCPT). In the gradCPT, a central face stimulus gradually transitions between individuals at a constant rate (1,200 ms), and participants are instructed to respond to each male face but not to a rare target female face. In the distractor-present version, the background distractors consist of scene images, and in the distractor-absent condition, of phase-scrambled scene images. The results confirmed that the gradCPT taxes sustained attention, as vigilance decrements were observed over the task's 12-min duration: Participants made more commission errors and showed increasingly variable response latencies (RTs) over time. Participants' attentional states also fluctuated from moment to moment, with periods of higher RT variability being associated with increased likelihood of errors and greater speed-accuracy trade-offs. In addition, task performance was related to self-reported mindfulness and the propensity for attention lapses in everyday life. The gradCPT is a useful tool for studying both low- and high-frequency fluctuations in sustained visual attention and is sensitive to individual differences in attentional ability.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 217 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 215 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 22%
Student > Master 31 14%
Researcher 27 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 8%
Student > Bachelor 18 8%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 35 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 96 44%
Neuroscience 24 11%
Engineering 10 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Other 28 13%
Unknown 44 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 September 2016.
All research outputs
#14,281,005
of 24,003,070 outputs
Outputs from Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
#573
of 1,773 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#167,218
of 289,528 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
#3
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,003,070 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,773 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 289,528 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.