Attentional demands while driving in a simulator: Effects of driving straights on open roads, approaching intersections and doubling maneuvers

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2004, Pages 29-38

  Teasdale, N ^a   Cantin, V ^a   Desroches, G ^a   Blouin, J ^b   Simoneau, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Intersections; Mental workload; Simulator

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULI; BASE-LINE CONDITIONS; COGNITIVE DEMANDS; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; MENTAL WORKLOAD; SEVERAL VARIABLES; TEMPORAL INTERVALS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; INTERSECTIONS; ROADS AND STREETS; SIMULATORS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 67349085534     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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