The Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT)
     


First described by Dinges & Powell (1985)
Simple reaction time to a visual stimulus
Collected over 5-10 minutes
Fatigue indicated by "lapses" (long RTs)
Dinges, D. F., and Powell, J. W. (1985). Microcomputer analyses of performance on a portable, simple visual RT task during sustained operations. Behav. Res. Meth. Instr. Com., vol. 16, pp. 652-5.