Talking to your car can drive you to distraction

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Strayer, David L ^a   Cooper, Joel M ^a   Turrill, Jonna ^a   Coleman, James R ^a   Hopman, Rachel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive distraction; Cognitive workload; Divided attention; Driver distraction; Driving; Multitasking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020823819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23657464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-016-0018-3     Document Type: Article

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