Citation

Jäncke L, Musial F, Vogt J, Kalveram KT. Percept. Mot. Skills 1994; 79(1): 484-486.

Affiliation

Institute of General Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7808886

Abstract

Whether radio monitoring, task difficulty, and time of day affect driving performance was examined in a computer-controlled, simulated driving task. Driving performance was defined as the absolute deviation of the car position from road midline as displayed on the computer monitor. We found for 12 men and 8 women (i) an expected, marked deterioration of performance with increasing task difficulty, (ii) a deterioration of performance in the morning, and (iii) a deterioration of performance when subjects concurrently listened to radio programs except for the easy task conducted in the morning. The latter is supposed to be caused by a reactive increase of effort, which is induced by the concurrent radio monitoring and stimulated through a perceived impairment of attention.

Language: en