Effects of preactivated mental representations on driving performance
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This study investigated the distribution of visual attention and driving performance under different conditions of preactivated mental representations. It is propagated that a series of mental concepts is successively activated during driving. Once a concept is activated, reactions to similar objects are facilitated (priming effect). In order to examine to which extent activated concepts influence the behaviour while driving, a driving simulator-study was performed. The difference between the experimental conditions was the existence of a concept-triggering signal: In one version of the traffic scene a premonitory stimulus appeared as a static object (warning sign) and in a second version as a dynamic object (moving pedestrian) before a jaywalker emerged behind a parking bus ...
| Original language | English | 
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| Title of host publication | Human factors for assistance and automation | 
| Editors | Dick Waard, Frank Flemisch, Bernd Lorenz, Hendrik Oberheid, Karel Brooklhuis | 
| Number of pages | 11 | 
| Place of Publication | Maastricht | 
| Publisher | Shaker Publishing | 
| Publication date | 2008 | 
| Pages | 129-139 | 
| ISBN (print) | 978-90-423-0350-8 | 
| Publication status | Published - 2008 | 
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