TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Imagery-inducing distraction leads to cognitive tunnelling and deteriorated driving performance
JO  - Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour
A1  - Briggs, Gemma F.
A1  - Hole, Graham J.
A1  - Land, Michael F.
SP  - 106
EP  - 117
VL  - 38
IS  - 
N2  - The effects of imagery-induced distraction on hazard perception and eye movements were investigated in 2 simulated driving experiments. Experiment 1: sixty participants viewed and responded to 2 driving films containing hazards. Group 1 completed the task without distraction; group 2 completed a concurrent imagery inducing telephone task; group 3 completed a non imagery inducing telephone task. Experiment 2: eye-tracking data were collected from forty-six participants while they reacted to hazards presented in 16 films of driving scenes. 8 films contained hazards presented in either central or peripheral vision and 8 contained no hazards. Half of the participants performed a concurrent imagery-inducing task. Compared to undistracted participants, dual-taskers were slower to respond to hazards; detected fewer hazards; committed more "looked but failed to see" errors; and demonstrated "visual tunnelling". Telephone conversations may interfere with driving performance because the two tasks compete for similar processing resources, due to the imagery-evoking aspects of phone use.    Keywords: Driver distraction <p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1369-8478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2016.01.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -