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Citation

Ratcliff R, Strayer DL. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 2014; 21(3): 577-589.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, ratcliff.22@osu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Psychonomic Society Publications)

DOI

10.3758/s13423-013-0541-x

PMID

24297620

Abstract

A one-boundary diffusion model was applied to the data from two experiments in which subjects were performing a simple simulated driving task. In the first experiment, the same subjects were tested on two driving tasks using a PC-based driving simulator and the psychomotor vigilance test. The diffusion model fit the response time distributions for each task and individual subject well. Model parameters were found to correlate across tasks, which suggests that common component processes were being tapped in the three tasks. The model was also fit to a distracted driving experiment of Cooper and Strayer (Human Factors, 50, 893-902, 2008). Results showed that distraction altered performance by affecting the rate of evidence accumulation (drift rate) and/or increasing the boundary settings. This provides an interpretation of cognitive distraction whereby conversing on a cell phone diverts attention from the normal accumulation of information in the driving environment.


Keywords: Driver distraction;


Language: en

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