Thus, in a paradigm where no information predicted timing, modality or properties of a subsequent stimulus, our results dissociate alertness, both anatomically and functionally, from attention and establish the central role of the cingulo-opercular network for sustaining alertness.
Auditory stimulation such as a familiar song and the patient's name was used to sustain alertness and to encourage the patient to fixate visually on the experimenter's face.
Normally, the two mutually opposing processes work well together, sustaining alertness throughout the day and promoting a solid night of sleep.
Then they were tested for sustained attention.
It also made for sustained commercial success.
Angiogenesis is crucial for sustaining tumors.
Further, BT consumers were more accurate in performing trail making test A. Trial making is a complex task that requires sustained attention, alertness, speeded motor activity to be activated at the same time.
Stip constructed the scale based on a questionnaire covering several cognitive domains: memory (working memory, explicit long-term memory), attention (divided, distractibility, alertness, sustained), language, and praxia.
Most importantly, ONTRAC is custom-designed to selectively target ADHD-specific definits in five critical neuro-cognitive domains of alertness, sustained and selective attention, working memory, impulsive response control and suppression of distracting interference.
See Seidel (2014) for a sustained critique.
The state of being awake and vigilant was later termed "tonic alertness," which indicates a state of optimal vigilance where attention is sustained for a prolonged period of time [ 16].
