Restoring vigilance in multi-task scenarios: a comparison of meditation, exposure to nature, music, and action video games.

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Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI:10.1080/00140139.2025.2468514

Xinyun Li, Qin Gao, Yang Liu

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Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the cognitive mechanisms behind vigilance changes in multi-task scenarios. Moreover, we compared the effects of four types of rest activities, i.e. meditation, virtual exposure to nature, listening to music, playing an action video game (AVG), on mitigating possible performance decline and regulating task-induced emotional changes in complex multiple-source vigilance tasks. Results of a two-session experiment on fifty-six participants using the Multi-Attribute Task Battery-II (MATB-II) suggest that the participants' arousal levels increased with time-on-task in both sessions, and performance decrement was observed only in the second session. Mindlessness measures were associated with performance fluctuations. All types of rest led to significant performance improvement in the second session, with meditation having the largest effect and AVG having the smallest. Rest activities restore performance by improving executive control (meditation), reducing emotional activity (meditation and nature exposure), or boosting arousal (music).

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在多任务场景中恢复警觉性：冥想、接触自然、音乐和动作视频游戏的比较。

本研究旨在探讨多任务情景下警觉性变化背后的认知机制。此外，我们比较了四种类型的休息活动，即冥想，虚拟暴露于自然，听音乐，玩动作视频游戏（AVG），对减轻复杂多源警戒任务中可能出现的表现下降和调节任务诱发的情绪变化的影响。使用Multi-Attribute Task Battery-II （MATB-II）对56名参与者进行了两次实验，结果表明，在两次实验中，参与者的唤醒水平都随着任务时间的增加而增加，而仅在第二次实验中观察到表现下降。无意识测量与表现波动有关。在第二阶段，所有类型的休息都能显著提高表现，冥想的效果最大，而AVG的效果最小。休息活动通过改善执行控制（冥想），减少情绪活动（冥想和自然接触）或提高唤醒（音乐）来恢复表现。

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来源期刊

Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

147

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Drawing upon human biology, psychology, engineering and design, Ergonomics aims to develop and apply knowledge and techniques to optimise system performance, whilst protecting the health, safety and well-being of individuals involved. The attention of ergonomics extends across work, leisure and other aspects of our daily lives. The journal Ergonomics is an international refereed publication, with a 60 year tradition of disseminating high quality research. Original submissions, both theoretical and applied, are invited from across the subject, including physical, cognitive, organisational and environmental ergonomics. Papers reporting the findings of research from cognate disciplines are also welcome, where these contribute to understanding equipment, tasks, jobs, systems and environments and the corresponding needs, abilities and limitations of people. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.