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

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk today. Hope to see you there!

Bryan


On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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