Degraded voices through mobile phones and their neural effects: A possible risk of using mobile phones during driving

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 8, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 331-340

  Kawano, Tsuneo ^a   Iwaki, Sunao ^b   Azuma, Yoshitaka ^c   Moriwaki, Toshimichi ^c   Hamada, Takashi ^b  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A risk for driving; Auditory attention; Brain; Degraded voice; Interruption; Mobile (cellular) phone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

A RISK FOR DRIVING; AUDITORY ATTENTION; DEGRADED VOICE; INTERRUPTION; MOBILE(CELLULAR) PHONES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 22144435223     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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