The phrase "alerting effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, communication, or any situation where a stimulus causes an increase in awareness or attention.
Example: "The alerting effect of the sudden noise caused everyone in the room to turn their heads in surprise."
Alternatives: "attention-grabbing effect" or "awareness-increasing effect".
Different indexes were established: an alerting effect (RT difference between the alerting cue and no alerting cue conditions), an orienting effect (RT difference between the valid and invalid conditions) and a conflict effect (RT difference between the congruent and incongruent conditions) (33); In each group, one way ANOVAs were used for comparison regarding gender and smoking on these indexes.
Although neither ADHD group differed significantly from controls on alerting, effect size comparisons indicated that children with ADHD/IA showed a somewhat larger (d = .57) and children with ADHD/C a somewhat smaller (d = .44) alerting effect relative to control children.
The aim of this study was to explore the alerting effect of light in the morning for different correlated colour temperature (CCT) values, as well as its interaction with ambient temperature.
Given the psychopharmacological effects of nicotine, which stimulates dopaminergic neural activity in the midbrain [27], the rapid enhancement effect for DLPFC activity suggests that smoking itself could directly accelerate WM task performance, even if alerting effect also collaterally works.
The observed alerting effect was not dependent upon mint flavor; it may be the case that chewing plays a key role in such an alerting effect.
Both heart rate and cortisol levels were higher during chewing, confirming that chewing gum has an alerting effect rather than a stress-reducing effect, consistent with another report [ 170].
Although light has various alerting effects at night, 500 nm LED light presented via light mask does not appear to inhibit daytime sleep.
Research interests include the role of melatonin in circadian sleep-wake regulation, effects of sleep loss on performance and cognition, shift work, alerting effects of light, legal issues relating to sleepiness and work hours.
It is thus of interest if the rate of chewing may moderate alerting effects of gum.
Cajochen, C. Alerting effects of light.
Alerting effects during daytime also exist, yet these appear to be more modest.
