To succeed in reading these sentences, your brain must ignore a variety of distractions—sights, sounds, and smells. Resisting distractions is vital ability for our daily lives, it poses unique challenge people who are dealing with attention disorders. In recent study, we asked whether an area the called claustrum supports to distractions. We developed methods that allowed us silence mice. chall...

Distracted driving is among the leading causes of motor vehicle crashes in United States, though magnitude this problem difficult to quantify given limitations police-reported crash data. This study leveraged data from second Strategic Highway Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study gain important insights into risks posed by driver distraction on both freeways and two-lane highways. More t...

A pre-test, post-test experiment was conducted to determine if using a popular racing game on a PlayStation® 3 video game console could change a player’s intent to drive distracted. Results indicated that those who were driving distracted (texting or talking) in a video game driving simulator had significantly more crashes, speed violations, and fog-line crossings than those in a non-distracted...

This study evaluated bone distracted in rabbit mandibles at different intervals and with different daily rates of distraction histologically with the goal of attaining a universally accepted distraction protocol. Osteogenesis was investigated in mandibles distracted at different rates in 24 New Zealand rabbits using a custom-made submerged distractor. Distraction was started on the third postop...

Traffic safety is a major concern in the temporary one-lane, two-way highway work zones due to the increasing of construction and maintenance operations. To prevent rear-end crashes and to mitigate the severity of these crashes caused by the inattentive driving, the utilization of the Emergency Flasher Traffic Control Device (EFTCD) was under consideration by government agencies, in addition to...

In 1988, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme became the first production car with a basic head-up display, also known as HUD. Automotive safety was and continues to be the main driving force for the deployment of HUDs with the aim of preventing drivers from taking their eyes off the road to look down and read their dashboard instruments. Distracted driver studies have shown that taking your eyes off...

Our 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. We found t...

PURPOSE The specific mechanisms by which peer passengers increase teen drivers' crash risk are not completely understood. We aimed to provide insight on the two primary hypothesized mechanisms, distraction and promotion of risk-taking behavior, for male and female teen drivers and further for select driver-passenger gender combinations. METHODS From the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation ...