Maintaining Vigilance on a simulated ATC Monitoring Task Across Repeated Sessions (2006)
Schroeder, David J., Touchstone, Robert M., Stern, John A., Stoliarov, Nikolai, Thackray, Richard I.
Maintaining alertness to information provided visually is an important aspect of air traffic controllers' work. Improper or incomplete scanning and monitoring behavior is often referred to as one of...
SACCADIC Eye Movements in Deception (2006)
Baker, Laura, Goldstein, Robert, Stern, John A.
Lie detection, as currently practiced, relies heavily on the use of measures of autonomic activity. It is presumed that lying is emotionally more arousing than truth telling that the increase in...
PREDICTORS OF PERFORMANCE - BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES. (2005)
This report reviews our work on instrumenting a helicopter to record the output of the pilot 'manipulanda' (stick, forward-backward, left-right, throttle, collective pitch, and tail rotor control)....
THE EFFECT OF STRESSORS ON EEG ACTIVATION WITH PHOTIC STIMULATION. (2005)
The effects of various stressors upon EEG activity and perceptual processes, under conditions of intermittent photic stimulation between frequencies of 4-18 cps were investigated. The various...
STUDIES OF CLASSICAL HEART RATE CONDITIONING IN THE RAT, (2005)
McDonald,David G., Stern,John A., Hahn,William H.
Four rat heart rate conditioning studies are presented. Measures were (1) HR changes during 8 sec. CS 9550 cps tone) and (2) immediately after the CS when the UCS (0.5 sec. shock) was not presented....
Aspects of Visual Search Activity Related to Attentional Processes and Skill Development (2004)
The research was conducted and completed in four phases. (1) Selection of a general version of a visual information processing task and development of a hardware/software system for task...
A Psychophysiological Mapping of Cognitive Processes. (2002)
Stern,John A., Goldstein,Robert
The purpose of these studies was to map the psychophysiological concomitants of cognitive processes. To this end, a modified Sternberg paradigm was used in which the trials were divided into three...
HEART RATE CONDITIONING IN THE RAT, (1998)
Classical conditioning procedures were used to evaluate the development and extinction of conditioned HR changes in the albino rat. The data suggest that the experimental group (a) developed a...
PAINTED HELICOPTER MAIN ROTOR BLADES AND FLICKER-INDUCED VERTIGO, (1998)
Painting the main rotor blades of UH-1 helicopters led to the question of the possibility of flicker-induced vertigo in formation flights involving these helicopters. In the first of two experiments...
Stern, John A., Goldstein, Robert, Dunham, Douglas N.
The purpose of this research was to explicate the relationship between information processing demands and certain physiological indices during flight mission (low level ingress and tanker rendezvous)...
Enhanced Performance Using Physiological Feedback. (1998)
Stern, John A., Goldstein, Robert, Dobkin, Richard
Four studies are described designed to investigate (1) the use of blink variables to predict errors in vigilance performance, (2) the relationship between blink latency and decision making, (3) the...
Saccadic Eye Movements in Deception. (1998)
Baker, Laura, Goldstein, Robert, Stern, John A.
Informal observations suggest that saccadic eye movements which occur during the period beginning when a subject indicates readiness for the next trial and ending at the outset of the following trial...
Stern, John A., Boyer, Donna J., Schroeder, David J., Touchstone, R. M., Stoliarov, N.
As operators are required to spend more time monitoring computer controlled devices in future systems, it is critical to define the task and situational factors (i.e., fatigue) that may impact...
Gateway: Volume 4, Number 4 (1998)
Helander, Martin, Stern, John A., Whitestone, Jennifer, Bernier, Leo J.
This issue contains articles on the following subjects: (1) Automation and Human-Computer Interaction in Manufacturing; (2) The eyes: Reflector of Attentional Processes; (3) Proceedings of the...
Detection of Human Fatigue (1998)
Stern, John A., Brown, Timothy B.
Military personnel are frequently required to perform tasks for which fatigue is a common problem. Lapses in alertness associated with fatigue are major contributors to human error. We have proposed...
Blinks, Saccades, and Fixation Pauses During Vigilance Task Performance: 1. Time on Task. (1997)
Stern, John A., Boyer, Donna, Schroeder, David, Touchstone, Mark, Stoliarov, Nikolai
In the future, operators of complex equipment will spend more time monitoring computer controlled devices rather than having hands-on control of such equipment. The operator intervenes in system...