Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Attentional processing of location and color cues during driving

RUTING XIA, MASATO FUKUSHIMA, SHUN'ICHI DOI
Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kagawa University, Japan
TAKAHIKO KIMURA and TOSHIAKI MIURA
Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Osaka University Yamadaoka, Japan


ABSTRACT

Studies have shown that prior information concerning the spatial location of a subsequent target facilitates the selection of that target for further visual processing in three-dimensional (3-D) space. Using Posner's cuing paradigm, our work examined the reaction time of drivers when cue duration and peripheral environment luminance was changed, and explored the effect color and location on reaction time. Experiment 1 showed that reaction time was not affected by cue duration, and that shifts of attention operated more efficiently for cue location validity. Experiment 2 showed that there was no main effect of background luminance on reaction time. Experiment 3 showed that location produces a greater effect than color.

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