It is not good to talk: conversation has a fixed interference cost on attention regardless of difficulty
Abstract It is well-documented that telephone conversations lead to impaired driving performance. Kunar et al. (Psychon Bull Rev 15:1135–1140, 2008) showed that this deficit was, in part, due to a dual-task cost of conversation on sustained visual attention. Using a multiple object tracking (MOT) ta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Cognitive Research |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-018-0124-5 |