Alcohol badly affects eye movements linked to steering, providing for automatic in-car detection of drink driving

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 849-858

  Marple Horvat, Dilwyn E ^a,b   Cooper, Hannah L ^a,b   Gilbey, Steven L ^b   Watson, Jessica C ^b   Mehta, Neena ^b   Kaur Mann, Daljit ^a,b   Wilson, Mark ^a   Keil, Damian ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Coordination; Driving; Eye movements; Impaired; Steering

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DATA ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 39149087347     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301458     Document Type: Article

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