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Vigilance researches will find certainly more and more applications in the area of industry and of transport operations because of the increased automatisation of work. This evolution often creates monotonous situations that can complicate the task of the operator especially when he has to take a decision or achieve a manual action after a long and monotonous period of monitoring (e.g. in transport operation). Thus, the aim of this research is to study the effects on vigilance of an alternation of a monotonous task (Vigilance task: VIG) with complex tasks (sustained Attention Task: TA). The method and preliminary results are presented. Continuous recording of EEG and of performance parameters show, that when TA are present, there is a resulting decrease in performance for subjects who present a marked ultradian rhythm of performance; no significant effect were observed for the subject who presented no variation of performance. Furthermore, subjects with important variations of performance show, at the same time, decreases of power in alpha band which coincide with the presentations of TA. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Coblentz, A., Cabon, P., Mollard, R. (1989). Effets de L’Alternance D’Une Tache Monotone et de Taches Complexes Sur la Vigilance et la Performance: Etude Exploratoire. In: Coblentz, A. (eds) Vigilance and Performance in Automatized Systems/Vigilance et Performance de l’Homme dans les Systèmes Automatisés. NATO ASI Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0981-6_5
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