Speech Shadowing while Driving: On the Difficulty of Splitting Attention Between Eye and Ear

Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 251-256

  Spence, Charles ^a,c   Read, Liliana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0043280889     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.02439     Document Type: Article

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