[CTN] CTN seminar: Lana Trick (University of Guelph) 3:30 Wednesday March 14, PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

We have the last talk of our regular season this week, at an unusual time
(on Wednesday rather than Tuesday). The speaker is Professor Lana Trick
from the Department of Psychology, University of Guelph.

Bryan

The long drive home: Secondary tasks, mind-wandering and finding the happy
medium between over- and underload

In Canada, many individuals put in long hours on the road driving to and
from work.  On an undemanding and familiar drive, driving may not use of
all of the available cognitive resources, leaving the driver in conditions
of underload. Under those circumstances drivers may be tempted to engage in
external secondary tasks such as cell phone conversations and texting,
which overload the drivers’ attentional resources. However, performance may
also deteriorate even without external secondary tasks, as occurs with
mind-wandering. When this occurs, drivers withdraw their attention from the
external task of driving over time and become absorbed in their own
thoughts. A series of studies are presented in which a driving simulator is
used to assess changes in driving performance as a function of time,
secondary tasks, and individual differences related to working memory and
sustained attention.
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