Title

Cognitive Load While Driving Impairs Memory Of Moving But Not Stationary Elements Within The Environment

Keywords

Cognitive load; Distracted driving; Simulator

Abstract

The negative impact of cognitive load, such as cell phone conversations, while driving is well established, but understanding the nature of this performance deficit is still being developed. To test the impact of load on awareness of different elements in a driving scene, memory for items within the environment was examined under load and no load conditions. Participants drove through two different scenarios in a driving simulator, were periodically interrupted by a pause in the driving during, and were asked questions regarding moving and stationary objects in the environment. Participants in the load condition drove while concurrently counting backwards by sevens. Results indicate that driving under load conditions led to diminished knowledge of moving, but not stationary, objects in the scene. This result suggests not all types of knowledge are equally impaired. Potential implications for current theories of cell phone use while driving and applied attention theory are discussed. © 2014 Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volume

3

Issue

2

Number of Pages

95-100

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.04.006

Socpus ID

84902553758 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84902553758

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