Understanding and improving sustained attention under vigilance conditions

该项目旨在解决技术进步带来的重大全球挑战：人类操作员必须监控计算机控制（例如，在自动驾驶汽车、铁路和空中交通管制中），但在这些条件下，保持注意力非常困难。这个国际合作项目开发了创新的行为和神经方法，将基础科学和应用科学联系起来，以了解监测条件下的注意力缺失。它创造了一种基于大脑活动模式的新颖干预，以提高表现。结果将增加我们对注意力的神经理解，并为在高风险环境中检测注意力缺失的新系统奠定基础，在错误发生之前预防错误。

This project aims to address a major global challenge caused by technological advances: human operators have to monitor computer-control (e.g., in autonomous vehicles, rail and airtraffic control) but sustaining attention is very difficult under these conditions. Developing innovative behavioural and neural methods, this internationally collaborative project bridges basic and applied science to understand lapses of attention under monitoring conditions. It creates a novel intervention, based on brain activity patterns, to improve performance. Outcomes will increase our neural understanding of attention and lay a foundation for a novel system to detect lapses of attention in high-risk environments, preventing errors before they occur.