Beschreibung:
Closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are drawn upon in order to enable us to drive, and the brain systems involved.
Acknowledgements. Foreword: Drivers and the Driving They Do. Assessing Distance, Speed and Time. Motor Responses and Behavioural Repertoires. Combining Perceptual-motor skills. Attention, Automaticity and Distraction. Learning, Instruction and Training. Memory for Driving. When Driving is Dangerous: Arousal, Assessment, and Hazard Perception. Appraisal, Efficacy and Action. Neurological Damage, Disease and Driving. Towards a Cognitive Account of Driver Behaviour. References.