Task prioritisation in multitasking during driving: Opportunity to abort a concurrent task does not insulate braking responses from dual-task slowing

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 507-525

  Levy, Jonathan ^a,b   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVING ABILITY; DUAL TASK PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 43649086218     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1378     Document Type: Article

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