Talk:Psychomotor vigilance task

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Role of false positives?

Just wondering: Does the false-positive rate (number of presses when no light is in fact on / number of times light is illuminated or " / # of total presses) play any role in calculating the level of a subject's impairment? 70.160.18.190 (talk) 21:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Response time data?

reader understanding this test would be improved by providing a description of average response times. For example, the most alert individuals have performance times that average under (?) 200ms, while individuals with fatigue or other conditions affecting performance have response times that exceed 500ms. I was unable to find (or intelligently interpret) the many data tables I examined in published studies, which lead me to search the wikipedia page, where I was disappointed to again find that somehow this most basic piece of information about vigilance tests is again absent. If anyone reading this knows how to find this information, it would be wonderful to have it included in the main article. Patrick Aberdeen (talk) 00:34, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]