Deep in thought while driving: An EEG study on drivers’ cognitive distraction

This research employed the EEG to examine the effects of different cognitive tasks (math and decision making problems) on drivers’ cognitive state. Forty-two subjects participated in this study. Two simulated driving sessions, driving with distraction task and driving only, were designed to investigate the impact of a secondary task on EEG responses as well as the driving performance. The authors found that engaging the driver’s cognitively with a secondary task significantly affected his/her driving performance as well as the judgment capability. Moreover, they found that different features of the secondary task had different effects on EEG responses and different localizations in the frontal cortex. Their hemispheric analysis results showed that the most affected area during distracted driving was in the right frontal cortex region; thus, it is suggested that the activation in the right frontal cortex region may be considered the spatial index that indicated a driver who is in a state of cognitive distraction.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.08.001
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847814001181
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Almahasneh, Hossam
  • Chooi, Weng-Tink
  • Kamel, Nidal
  • Malik, Aamir Saeed
• Publication Date: 2014-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 218-226
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Volume: 26, Part A
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1369-8478
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13698478

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attention lapses; Cognition; Distraction; Driver performance; Electroencephalography; Human information processing; Judgment (Human characteristics); Multitasking; Physiological aspects
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01541021
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 15 2014 5:11PM