Safetylit: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Age-Related Slowing: Perceptuomotor, Decision, or Attention Decline? - Godefroy O, Roussel M, Despretz P, Quaglino V, Boucart M. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184373_5Age-related slowing is well documented but its origin remains unclear. A first validation study (Study 1) performed in 46 participants examined the effect of attention allocation (manipulated through a dual task) on various portions of individual simple re...Attentional Landscapes in Reaching and Grasping. - Baldauf D, Deubel H. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184666_5It is well established that during the preparation and execution of goal-directed movements, perceptual processing is biased towards the goal. Most of the previous work on the relation between action and attention has focused on rather simple movements, su...Factors Influencing Driving Status in an Older Latino Population. - Segal-Gidan F, Varma R, Salazar X, Mack WJ. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184710_5Objective: The study aims at examining factors associated with driving status and self-reported driving difficulty, with particular attention to vision and cognitive impairment. Method: This study uses cross-sectional data from 421 elderly Latino particip...Sleep quality and cognitive performance in 8-year-old children. - Paavonen EJ, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK, Lahti J, Komsi N, Heinonen K, Järvenpää AL, Strandberg T, Kajantie E, Porkka-Heiskanen T. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184354_5OBJECTIVE: The present study examined how sleep duration and sleep quality are associated with cognitive performance in 8-year-old children using standardized neurocognitive tests. METHODS: Two hundred ninety children aged 7.4-8.8years participated in the ...Sleep quality and motor vehicle crashes in adolescents. - Pizza F, Contardi S, Antognini AB, Zagoraiou M, Borrotti M, Mostacci B, Mondini S, Cirignotta F. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183971_5STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep-related complaints are common in adolescents, but their impact on the rate of motor vehicle crashes accidents is poorly known. We studied subjective sleep quality, driving habits, and self-reported car crashes in high-school adolesc...Use of single-vision distance spectacles improves landing control during step descent in well-adapted multifocal lens-wearers. - Timmis MA, Johnson L, Elliott DB, Buckley JG. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184380_5Purpose: Epidemiological research has shown that multifocal spectacle wearers (bifocal and progressive addition lenses, PALs) are more than twice as likely to fall compared with non-multifocal spectacle wearers with this risk further increasing when negoti...Wind phobia (ancraophobia)--as an example of simple phobia. The case report. - Pawlak J, Gazda J, Rybakowski J. Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workloadhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184661_5The subject of the paper is the presentation of simple phobias, with particular attention to those connected with natural environment, their classification according to ICD-10 and DSM-IV systems, current views on aetiology and pathogenesis of phobic fear, ...