Understanding Driving: Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task

Groeger, John A.

ISBN 10: 1138986453 / ISBN 13: 9781138986459

Published by Routledge, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Driving: Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138986453
• ISBN 13: 9781138986459
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book 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. It attempts to show how studying tasks such as driving can help to understand how these fundamental aspects of cognition combine to facilitate performance in complex everyday tasks. In doing so it shows how a very broad range of laboratory based findings can be applied, and that through our attempts to apply this knowledge to complex everyday tasks, we gain, in return, a greater understanding of fundamental aspects of human cognition.

About the Author

Groeger, John A.