TY - JOUR
T1 - Translating cognitive neuroscience to the driver's operational environment
T2 - A neuroergonomic approach
AU - Lees, Monica N.
AU - Cosman, Joshua D.
AU - Lee, John D.
AU - Fricke, Nicola
AU - Rizzo, Matthew
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Neuroergonomics provides a multidisciplinary translational approach that merges elements of neuroscience, human factors, cognitive psychology, and ergonomics to study brain structure and function in everyday environments. Driving safety, particularly that of older drivers with cognitive impairments, is a fruitful application domain for neuroergonomics. Driving makes demands on multiple cognitive processes that are often studied in isolation and so presents a useful challenge in generalizing findings from controlled laboratory tasks to predict safety outcomes. Neurology and the cognitive sciences help explain the mechanisms of cognitive breakdowns that undermine driving safety. Ergonomics complements this explanation with the tools for systematically exploring the various layers of complexity that define the activity of driving. A variety of tools, such as part task simulators, driving simulators, and instrumented vehicles, provide a window into cognition in the natural settings needed to assess the generalizability of laboratory findings and can provide an array of potential interventions to increase driving safety.
AB - Neuroergonomics provides a multidisciplinary translational approach that merges elements of neuroscience, human factors, cognitive psychology, and ergonomics to study brain structure and function in everyday environments. Driving safety, particularly that of older drivers with cognitive impairments, is a fruitful application domain for neuroergonomics. Driving makes demands on multiple cognitive processes that are often studied in isolation and so presents a useful challenge in generalizing findings from controlled laboratory tasks to predict safety outcomes. Neurology and the cognitive sciences help explain the mechanisms of cognitive breakdowns that undermine driving safety. Ergonomics complements this explanation with the tools for systematically exploring the various layers of complexity that define the activity of driving. A variety of tools, such as part task simulators, driving simulators, and instrumented vehicles, provide a window into cognition in the natural settings needed to assess the generalizability of laboratory findings and can provide an array of potential interventions to increase driving safety.
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U2 - 10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.4.0391
DO - 10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.4.0391
M3 - Article
C2 - 21291157
AN - SCOPUS:78650197677
VL - 123
SP - 391
EP - 411
JO - American Journal of Psychology
JF - American Journal of Psychology
SN - 0002-9556
IS - 4
ER -