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The effect of auditory distraction on the useful field of view in hearing impaired individuals and its implications for driving

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Publicado en:Cognition, Technology & Work vol. 18, no. 2 (May 2016), p. 393
Autor principal: Herbert, Nicholas C
Otros Autores: Thyer, Nicholas J, Isherwood, Sarah J, Merat, Natasha
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Springer Nature B.V.
Materias:
Automobile driving
Ears & hearing
Hearing loss
Listeners
Hearing disorders
Everyday life
Deafness
Listening
Hearing
Task performance
Cognition
Cognitive tasks
Ergonomics
Distraction
Tests
Visual task performance
Physical disabilities
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Resumen:Issue Title: Special Issue on Cognitive ergonomics for work, education and everyday life (pp 233-318) This study assessed whether the increased demand of listening in hearing impaired individuals exacerbates the detrimental impact of auditory distraction on a visual task (useful field of view test), relative to normally hearing listeners. Auditory distraction negatively affects this visual task, which is linked with various driving performance outcomes. Hearing impaired and normally hearing participants performed useful field of view testing with and without a simultaneous listening task. They also undertook a cognitive test battery. For all participants, performing the visual and auditory tasks together reduced performance on each respective test. For a number of subtests, hearing impaired participants showed poorer visual task performance, though not to a statistically significant extent. Hearing impaired participants were significantly poorer at a reading span task than normally hearing participants and tended to score lower on the most visually complex subtest of the visual task in the absence of auditory task engagement. Useful field of view performance is negatively affected by auditory distraction, and hearing loss may present further problems, given the reductions in visual and cognitive task performance suggested in this study. Suggestions are made for future work to extend this study, given the practical importance of the findings.
ISSN:1435-5558
1435-5566
DOI:10.1007/s10111-016-0366-2
Fuente:Psychology Collection