Vigilance effects were investigated with a duration judgment task, with or without a requirement also to perform mental arithmetic problems. Judged duration values were larger when only vigilance was performed; addition of the arithmetic task served to improve efficiency. Habituation processes thus are involved in a wide variety of behaviors.
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