Our findings underscore the value and importance of experience, which apparently leads to alertness and knowledge of approaching procedures in case of being confronted with deviant behavioural patterns.
Perhaps less reliance on so-called safety measures would lead to higher alertness.
Studies that have tested the effects of artificial light on cognitive abilities have found that increased light exposure leads to increased alertness and a variety of changes in regional brain activity [ 37].
Results: FNZ led to psychomotor impairments and decreased alertness and attention; these effects were consistent with previous findings.
Kelley and Gorham argued that enthusiastic nonverbal cues induce higher emotional arousal in learners, which in turn, led to higher cognitive activation and alertness when focusing and recalling information.
On the other hand, for the novice meditators, Shamatha meditation did not show an increased BOLD signal that is related to tonic alertness, possibly due to insufficient expertise with this practice, but Vipassana meditation led to increased activation in the left dACC, indicative of enhanced tonic alertness.
A slow line change led to the Flyers' first goal, and a lack of alertness at the point led to the second, a long shot by Vandermeer through traffic.
Differences in diagnostic testing and alertness of general practitioners might have led to ascertainment bias.
Due to the more challenging task in the concurrent articulation condition, it may have been the case that participants' intrinsic alertness was increased, which in turn led to faster responses (e.g., [ 37, 38]).
It is entirely possible that other factors, such as increased confidence or alertness, given the presence of a futuristic gizmo on subjects' heads, led to the apparent brain gains.
