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01-11-2011 | Original Article

Talking and driving: applications of crossmodal action reveal a special role for spatial language

Auteurs: Paul Atchley, Jeff Dressel, Todd C. Jones, Rebecca A. Burson, David Marshall

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2011

Abstract

Talking reduces attention resulting in real-world crash risks to drivers that talk on a phone and drive. Driving is a behavior that is very demanding on spatial attention, suggesting potentially large interference by spatial codes in language. The current study investigated how different types of verbal codes influence visual attention during dual-task performance. In two experiments, participants performed a spatial or non-spatial verbal task while simultaneously performing a visual attention task. The results showed a larger decrement to visual attention performance when participants were concurrently engaged in a spatial verbal task. The results of the second experiment isolated this effect to the right cerebral hemisphere, consistent with a role for shared right parietal resources. These results are consistent with the idea that processing codes are an important component of coordinating talking and driving but generally inconsistent with a broad class of bottleneck approaches that describes dual-task decrements but treats component tasks as cognitively equivalent.

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Titel: Talking and driving: applications of crossmodal action reveal a special role for spatial language
Auteurs: Paul Atchley
Jeff Dressel
Todd C. Jones
Rebecca A. Burson
David Marshall
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2011
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2011
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0342-7

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