Abstract:While driver distraction has become one of the most studied topics in safety and in human factors, the focus has remained on the traditional elements of driver distraction. In this study, we manipulated the difficulty level of riddles to determine whether the cognitive processing associated with solving them would affect driving performance. Twenty-eight participants completed a series of eighteen short drives while undistracted or listening to a hard or easy riddles. Frequency of pressing the brake pedal, dev… Show more
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