On the importance of working memory in the driving safety field: a systematic review

H Zhang, Y Guo, W Yuan, K Li - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, many studies have used poor cognitive functions to explain risk safety
differences among drivers. Working memory is a cognitive function with information storage …

Demonstrating brain-level interactions between visuospatial attentional demands and working memory load while driving using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

J Scheunemann, A Unni, K Ihme, M Jipp… - Frontiers in human …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Driving is a complex task concurrently drawing on multiple cognitive resources. Yet, there is
a lack of studies investigating interactions at the brain-level among different driving subtasks …

How microsaccades relate to lateralized ERP components of spatial attention: A co-registration study

S Meyberg, W Sommer, O Dimigen - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
Covert shifts of attention that follow the presentation of a cue are associated with lateralized
components in the event-related potential (ERP): the “early directing attention …

Early top-down control of internal selection induced by retrospective cues in visual working memory: advantage of peripheral over central cues

S Han, H Zhou, Y Tian, Y Ku - Progress in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Attention can be deployed among external sensory stimuli or internal working memory (WM)
representations, and recent primate studies have revealed that these external and internal …

When adding is right: Temporal order judgements reveal spatial attention shifts during two-digit mental arithmetic

M Glaser, A Knops - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research suggests that addition and subtraction induce horizontal shifts of attention.
Previous studies used single-digit (1d) problems or verification paradigms that lend …

Automatic discrimination of task difficulty predicted by frontal EEG activity during working memory tasks in young and elderly drivers

K Kashihara - International Journal of Information Technology & …, 2022 - World Scientific
It is desirable to prevent traffic accidents by focusing on elderly people's brain
characteristics. The attention level during driving depends on the amount of information …

Age-related changes in attentional refocusing during simulated driving

E Huizeling, H Wang, C Holland, K Kessler - Brain sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
We recently reported that refocusing attention between temporal and spatial tasks becomes
more difficult with increasing age, which could impair daily activities such as driving …

Measuring working memory load effects on electrophysiological markers of attention orienting during a simulated drive

V Ross, AY Vossen, FTY Smulders, RAC Ruiter… - Ergonomics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Intersection accidents result in a significant proportion of road fatalities, and attention
allocation likely plays a role. Attention allocation may depend on (limited) working memory …

Skipping Breakfast Affects the Early Steps of Cognitive Processing

AA González-Garrido… - Journal of …, 2018 - econtent.hogrefe.com
It has been generally accepted that skipping breakfast adversely affects cognition, mainly
disturbing the attentional processes. However, the effects of short-term fasting upon brain …

Executive attention as a predictor of distracted driving performance

JF Louie, M Mouloua - … of the human factors and ergonomics …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study empirically examines the role of executive attention as a predictor of
distracted driving performance. As ADHD is an attention-related disorder, we hypothesized …