Emotion matters: Implications for distracted driving

Chan, Michelle; Singhal, Anthony

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2014.10.002

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“…Reaction times were slower when the target stimulus was paired with negative and positive words. In two of the studies (Chan & Singhal, 2013, 2015), memory was greater for positive and negative than neutral words after a two minute recall interval. The study with non-significant results (Chan et al, 2016) tested participants’ memory immediately after the encoding phase.…”

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“…Three studies used a driving simulator to test attention to emotional items (Chan & Singhal, 2013, 2015; Chan et al, 2016). Participants were required to respond via a button on a steering wheel when a target stimulus (neutral word) appeared on a billboard.…”

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“…Memory performance was greater for emotional than neutral words at immediate recall. Finally, one experiment (Chan & Singhal, 2015) reported reduce negative slow wave (NSW) amplitude for negative versus neutral words, which was coupled with enhanced memory for negative over neutral words at immediate recall.…”

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Attention and Emotion-Enhanced Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Behavioural and Neuroimaging Evidence

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7 8 ABSTRACT: The interaction between attention and emotion is posited to influence long-term 9 memory consolidation. We systematically reviewed experiments investigating the influence of 1 0 attention on emotional memory to determine: (i) the reported effect of attention on memory for 1 1 emotional stimuli, and (ii) whether there is homogeneity between behavioural and neuroimaging 1 2 based effects. Over half of the 47 included experiments found a moderate-to-large effect of attention 1 3 on emotional memory as measured behaviourally. However, eye-tracking research provide mixed 1 4 support for the role of attention-related processes in facilitating emotional information into long-term 1 5 memory. Similarly, modulations in sensory-related components at encoding were not predictive of 1 6long-term memory formation, whereas later components appear to differentially reflect the allocation 1 7 of attention to heterogeneous emotional stimuli. This dissociation in neurophysiology is paralleled by 1 8 the activation of distinct neural networks under full-and divided-attention conditions. We quantified 1 9 the effects of the behavioural, eye-tracking and neuroimaging findings via meta-analysis to show that 2 0 the neural substrates of attention-related emotional memory enhancement may be sensitive to specific 2 1 methodological parameters. 2 2 2 3

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“…monotonous landscapes during a tedious drive) provides too little stimuli to force the driver to pay attention and may also be a reason for unsafe behaviour on the road. Indeed the literature on arousal and driving performance indicates that drivers respond faster to targets when arousal is high (Chan and Singhal 2015). However, the role of advertising in the context of very low-arousal-environments is not so clear.…”

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Are longer advertising slogans more dangerous? The influence of the length of ad slogans on drivers’ attention and motor behavior

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The purpose of this project was to verify whether slogans displayed on roadside advertisements created a distraction for drivers. In order to explain the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, Study 1 examined the impact of slogan length on attentional processing efficiency. Study 2 investigated the relationship between the length of the slogan and the motor behavior of respondents driving a car simulator. We assumed that slogan length would decrease the drivers' task performance in both studies. Study 1 was conducted on a group of 70 participants, who completed a modified version of the Attention Network Test (ANT; Fan et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(3), 340-347, 2002). The task consisted of visual ads intended to distract respondents from the primary task. Reaction times were significantly longer when ads had longer slogans compared to shorter slogans. Study 2, involving a car simulator, was conducted on a group of 53 drivers performing a task of driving in a convoy. Participants were shown billboards with ads at the roadside in random order (two pairs of corresponding ads with short and long text on it). Participants' driving performance decreased when longer slogans were presented in comparison to the short-slogan condition. In conclusion, we interpret the results of Study 1 to indicate that longer slogan leads to a greater load of attentional processing. This subsequently leads to a reduction of the processing efficiency within attentional systems and further increases the amount of time to resist the irrelevant stimulus. A consequence of this, as shown in Study 2 using a car simulator, is a decrease in cognitive resources necessary for safe driving and therefore worse performance on a driving task.

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“…The findings in this study showed that emotional distraction: (a) can seriously modulate attention and decision-making abilities and have adverse impacts on driving behavior for several reasons and (b) can impact driving performance by reorienting attention away from the primary driving task towards the emotional content and negatively influence the decision-making process. In another study with a similar line of work, Chan et al [205] showed that emotion-related auditory distraction can modulate attention to differentially influence driving performance. Specifically, negative distractions reduced lateral control and slowed driving speeds compared to positive and neutral distractions.…”

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Driver Distraction Using Visual-Based Sensors and Algorithms

Fernández¹,

Usamentiaga

Carús³

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Driver distraction, defined as the diversion of attention away from activities critical for safe driving toward a competing activity, is increasingly recognized as a significant source of injuries and fatalities on the roadway. Additionally, the trend towards increasing the use of in-vehicle information systems is critical because they induce visual, biomechanical and cognitive distraction and may affect driving performance in qualitatively different ways. Non-intrusive methods are strongly preferred for monitoring distraction, and vision-based systems have appeared to be attractive for both drivers and researchers. Biomechanical, visual and cognitive distractions are the most commonly detected types in video-based algorithms. Many distraction detection systems only use a single visual cue and therefore, they may be easily disturbed when occlusion or illumination changes appear. Moreover, the combination of these visual cues is a key and challenging aspect in the development of robust distraction detection systems. These visual cues can be extracted mainly by using face monitoring systems but they should be completed with more visual cues (e.g., hands or body information) or even, distraction detection from specific actions (e.g., phone usage). Additionally, these algorithms should be included in an embedded device or system inside a car. This is not a trivial task and several requirements must be taken into account: reliability, real-time performance, low cost, small size, low power consumption, flexibility and short time-to-market. The key points for the development and implementation of sensors to carry out the detection of distraction will also be reviewed. This paper shows a review of the role of computer vision technology applied to the development of monitoring systems to detect distraction. Some key points considered as both future work and challenges ahead yet to be solved will also be addressed.

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Emotion matters: Implications for distracted driving

Cited by 71 publications

References 39 publications

Attention and Emotion-Enhanced Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Behavioural and Neuroimaging Evidence

Attention and Emotion-Enhanced Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Behavioural and Neuroimaging Evidence

Are longer advertising slogans more dangerous? The influence of the length of ad slogans on drivers’ attention and motor behavior

Driver Distraction Using Visual-Based Sensors and Algorithms

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