Norman Mackworth

Norman H. "Mac" Mackworth is a British psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his pioneering work in the study of boredom, attention, and vigilance; the Mackworth Clock test has been used since the 1940s in the study of vigilance.

During the Second World War, Mackworth was recruited by the RAF to study the efficiency of radar operators;^[1] his findings resulted in the length of operator duty shifts being drastically reduced.^[2]

In 1951, Mackworth became head of the Unit for Research in Applied Psychology at Cambridge University, where he remained until emigrating to Canada in 1958.^[3]

External links

• Visual Acuity When Eyes Are Pursuing Moving Targets at Science, by Norman H. Mackworth and Ira T. Kaplan (1962)

References

1. ^ Vigilance Requires Hard Mental Work and Is Stressful, Warm, J. S., Parasuraman, R., & Matthews, G. (2008). Human Factors, 50, 433-441
2. ^ Psychobiology: the Biological Bases of Behavior (Readings from Scientific American), 1967
3. ^ History of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University

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