@article{ref1,
title="Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning",
journal="Journal of applied psychology",
year="1969",
author="Simmonds, D. C. and Tickner, A. H. and Brown, I. D.",
volume="53",
number="5",
pages="419-424",
abstract="<p>224 men were given the task of judging whether to drive through gaps which might be larger or smaller than the car, and a telephoning task of checking the accuracy of short sentences. Interference between the concurrently performed tasks was investigated. Telephoning mainly impaired judgments of &quot;impossible&quot; gaps. The control skills employed in steering through &quot;possible&quot; gaps were not reliably degraded, although speed of driving was reduced. Driving increased errors and prolonged RTs on the sentence-checking task. It is concluded that telephoning has a minimal effect on the more automatized driving skills, but that perception and decision-making may be critically impaired by switching between visual and auditory inputs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)    Keywords: Driver distraction;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9010",
doi="10.1037/h0028103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0028103"
}