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Briggs, Gemma F.; Hole, Graham J. and Turner, Jim A.J.
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.08.007
Abstract
The impact of attentional set and situation awareness on event detection and reaction times was investigated in 2 simulated driving experiments. Experiment 1: thirty participants viewed and reacted to thirty driving films containing unexpected items which were either driving congruent or incongruent. Group 1 completed the task without distraction; group 2 completed a concurrent conversation task. Experiment 2: thirty participants viewed and reacted to twenty driving films which contained unexpected yet driving relevant events. Half of the participants completed the task without distraction and half completed a concurrent conversation task. Measures of event detection and reaction time were recorded for both experiments. Compared to undistracted participants, dual-taskers reacted to fewer unexpected events; recorded longer reaction times; and reacted to fewer incongruent and peripheral events, suggesting an enduring attentional set for driving. Dual tasking drivers may adopt a strategy of over-reliance on schema-driven processing when attention is shared between tasks.
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- Item ORO ID
- 50934
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1369-8478
- Keywords
- attentional set; schemas; dual tasking; cognitive workload; driving; situation awareness
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
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Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
Forensic Cognition Research Group (FCRG) - Copyright Holders
- © 2017 Elsevier
- Depositing User
- Gemma Briggs