@article{ref1,
title="Practice does not make perfect in a modified sustained attention to response task",
journal="Experimental brain research",
year="2014",
author="Head, James and Helton, William S.",
volume="232",
number="2",
pages="565-573",
abstract="In the current investigation, we examined the changes in performance, task-related thoughts (TRT), and task-unrelated thoughts (TUT) over four sessions of a modified sustained attention to response task (SART). Eighteen participants completed a clockwise manual selection SART (Head and Helton in Conscious Cogn 22:913-919, 2013) and a conscious thought questionnaire once a week for four weeks. Response times and errors of commission oscillated over sessions in line with a motor strategy interpretation of the SART. As participants became faster in the task, they made more commission errors. The conscious thought questionnaire failed to show a relationship between errors of commission and TRT and TUT on the SART at either a between-subject or within-subject level of analysis. Commission errors in the SART may be better measures of executive motor control and response strategy than perceptual decoupling.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-4819",
doi="10.1007/s00221-013-3765-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-013-3765-0"
}