Neuroscience
... may not be possible. The World of Psychology blog reports on a recent article from the Journal of Neuroscience suggesting "... that the brain can’t simultaneously give full attention to both the visual task of driving and the auditory task of listening." Which is why you shouldn't talk on the phone while driving, even with a hands-free device.
The study was done by a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, and you can read more details in their press release.
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It's well established that talking on a mobile phone while driving is distracting and dangerous. But what about talking on a mobile phone while walking? After all, pedestrians can often be seen marching about town, phone clutched to their ear, blissfully...
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that multitasking is not efficient. Slow Down, Multitaskers; Don’t Read in Traffic, from Sunday's New York Times quotes several recent & forthcoming studies detailing the inefficiencies of multitasking. Some...
Neuroscience
True Multitasking ...
... may not be possible. The World of Psychology blog reports on a recent article from the Journal of Neuroscience suggesting "... that the brain can’t simultaneously give full attention to both the visual task of driving and the auditory task of listening." Which is why you shouldn't talk on the phone while driving, even with a hands-free device.
The study was done by a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, and you can read more details in their press release.
- Day 6 Of Digest Super Week: Meet The Supertaskers
We study SuperTaskers Dr Jason WatsonMy collaborator Dr. David Strayer and I began looking for individual differences in multitasking ability in 2006-2007. We were looking for any attentional control variables that might predict who shows more or less...
- When It's Dangerous To Walk And Talk
It's well established that talking on a mobile phone while driving is distracting and dangerous. But what about talking on a mobile phone while walking? After all, pedestrians can often be seen marching about town, phone clutched to their ear, blissfully...
- Driven To Distraction
The UK law introduced in 2003 banning the use of handheld mobile phones while driving presupposes that it’s the handling aspect of mobile use that’s dangerous rather than the communication aspect. Now a study by psychologists at the University of...
- Olfactory Bulb Stem Cell Transplants And Als
A number of news reports are beginning to be published from presentations at Neuroscience 2004, the ongoing conference of the Society for Neuroscience. Here is one press release from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions concerning a presentation about amyotrophic...
- Multitasking (switch Ipod On) Is Not (check Email) Efficient (answer Phone)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that multitasking is not efficient. Slow Down, Multitaskers; Don’t Read in Traffic, from Sunday's New York Times quotes several recent & forthcoming studies detailing the inefficiencies of multitasking. Some...