Response-Inhibition Training: A New Horizon for Young Driver Training?

Impulsiveness contributes to young drivers’ risky driving. Three studies tested whether response-inhibition training reduced young drivers’ risky simulated driving. Study 1 participants completed 600 or 1200 Go/No-go trials. Performance worsened with training, and test drive speeding increased (relative to controls). Study 2 participants completed 2200 trials of driving-relevant Go/No-go task, Stop Signal and Collision Detection tasks over five days. Study 3 participants completed 1800 Go/No-go and Stop Signal Task enhanced-feedback trials over 10 days. Task performance improved in both studies. Risky driving reduced slightly in Study 3. Any effect of response-inhibition training on simulated driving is likely to be small and difficult to achieve.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Hatfield, J
  • Williamson, A
  • Kehoe, J
  • Lemon, J
  • Arguel, A
  • Prabhakharan, P
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2017, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Publication Date: 2017-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 2p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 10-12 October, Perth, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Driver training; Drivers; Driving simulators; Evaluation; Recently qualified drivers; Risk taking; Young adults
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
• Geographic Terms: Australia; New South Wales
• ATRI Terms: Before and after study; Driver training; Driving simulator; Evaluation; Risk taking; Young driver
• ITRD Terms: 9148: Before and after study; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1680: Simulator (driving)
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661799
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2018 10:06AM