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Driver distraction, defined as the diversion of attention away from activities critical for safe driving toward a competing activity, is increasingly recognized as a significant source of injuries and fatalities on the roadway. Additionally, the tren...

The impact of cycling-related traffic crashes on public health has increased significantly in recent decades, with cyclists being among the most vulnerable road users. The risk of severe injury in traffic crashes is notably high for cyclists, especia...

The present cross-over study aimed to evaluate the effect of a visual passive distraction tool, a case for carpule, in the management of fear and anxiety during invasive dental treatment. Children between the ages of 4 and 8 years that need at least...

This research explores the impact of visual distraction duration from multifunctional in-car displays on driver safety. Utilizing a driving simulator and eye-tracking technology, this study involved 35 participants in visual search and car-following...

This study evaluates how different alert conditions influence driver attention transitions under conditions of visual distraction using sequence analysis. Employing a within-subject experimental design, 13 participants underwent trials in a driving s...

Pain associated with fistula cannulation is a challenge for nurses who provide care to older patients undergoing hemodialysis. Several non-pharmacological methods have been suggested for relieving fistula cannulation pain, but the benefits of visual...

Background/Objectives: Distraction is a form of impaired selective attention that becomes more pronounced with normal aging and in pathological conditions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Event-related poten...

Healthy aging is associated with decline in the ability to maintain visual information in working memory (WM). We examined whether this decline can be explained by decreases in the ability to filter distraction during encoding or to ignore distractio...

Electroencephalography (EEG) provides insights into the neural mechanisms underlying attention, response inhibition, and distraction in cognitive tasks. This dataset was collected to examine neural activity in young drivers and non-drivers performing...

Electroencephalogram (EEG) was used to analyze the mechanisms and differences in brain neural activity of drivers in visual, auditory, and cognitive distracted vs. normal driving emergency braking conditions. A pedestrian intrusion emergency braking...

Distractions external to a vehicle contribute to visual attention diversion that may cause traffic accidents. As a low-cost and efficient advertising solution, billboards are widely installed on side of the road, especially the motorway. However, the...

Driver distraction has become a leading cause of traffic crashes. Visual distraction has the most direct impact on driving safety among various driver distractions. If the driver’s line of sight deviates from the road in front, there will be a...

Augmented reality (AR) scenes often inadvertently contain real world objects that are not relevant to the main AR content, such as arbitrary passersby on the street. We refer to these real-world objects as content-irrelevant real objects (CIROs). CIR...

In autonomous driving vehicles, the driver can engage in non-driving-related tasks and does not have to pay attention to the driving conditions or engage in manual driving. If an unexpected situation arises that the autonomous vehicle cannot manage,...

Pain and anxiety are major issues among older patients with burn injuries. Complementary medicine and non-pharmacological methods can relieve pain and anxiety in older people, but comparison of the effects of these methods needs further research. Thi...

Background/Objectives: Vulnerability to sound distraction is commonly reported in older adults with dementia and tends to be associated with adverse impacts on daily activity. However, study outcome heterogeneity is increasingly evident, with preserv...

Several studies have shown that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show abnormalities in P3b to targets in standard oddball tasks. The present study employed a three-stimulus visual oddball task with novel distracters that analyzed event-re...

On-road driving studies are essential for comprehending real-world driver behavior. This study investigates the use of eye-tracking (ET) technology in research on driver behavior and attention during Controlled Driving Studies (CDS). One significant...

This paper investigates the effect that selected auditory distractions have on the signal of a visual P300 Speller in terms of accuracy, amplitude, latency, user preference, signal morphology, and overall signal quality. In addition, it ensues the de...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive method used to track human brain activity over time. The time-locked EEG to an external event is known as event-related potential (ERP). ERP can be a biomarker of human perception and other cognitive pro...

Distraction is a major causal factor of road crashes, and very young and older drivers seem to be particularly susceptible to distracting stimuli; however, the possibilities of exploring the causes for increased distractibility of these groups in rea...

Distracting activities while driving are common and can result in errors that threaten road users’ safety. The main objectives of this study were to investigate drivers’ perspectives of the factors contributing to distraction, determine the relative...

Oral diseases and conditions affect children’s oral health and negatively influence their overall health. Early detection and intervention are important in mitigating these negative consequences. However, dental fear and anxiety (DFA) regarding...

Older adults are known to have lesser cognitive control capability and greater susceptibility to distraction than young adults. Previous studies have reported age-related problems in selective attention and inhibitory control, yielding mixed results...

Pedestrian distraction poses significant risks at signalized intersections, especially in populated urban areas. This study investigates the primary causes of pedestrian distraction to determine the contributing factors affecting crossing behavior. D...

Many factors affect road safety, but research constantly shows that drivers are the major cause of critical situations that could potentially lead to a traffic accident in road traffic. Visual information is a crucial part of input information into t...

Driver distraction is a major problem nowadays, contributing to many deaths, injuries, and economic losses. Despite the effort that has been made to minimize these impacts, considering the technological evolution, distraction at the wheel has tended...

Driver distraction remains a critical factor in road accidents, necessitating intelligent systems for real-time detection. This study introduces a novel fNIRS-based method to to classify varying levels of driver distraction across diverse simulated s...

Distracted driving has become a major cause of road traffic accidents. There are generally four different types of distractions: manual, visual, auditory, and cognitive. Manual distractions are the most common. Previous studies have used physiologica...

Road safety is increasingly threatened by distracted driving. Studies have shown that there is a significantly increased risk for a driver of being involved in a car crash due to visual distractions (not watching the road), manual distractions (hands...

Autonomous driving is anticipated to increase safety, efficiency, and accessibility of passenger transportation. Passengers are given freedom in the use of travel time through the potential to conduct non-driving related tasks (NDRTs). However, facto...

Distracted driving is a growing concern around the world and has been the focus of many naturalistic and simulator-based studies. Driving simulators provide excellent practical and theoretical help in studying the driving process, and considerable ef...

One of the main reasons for fatal accidents on the road is distracted driving. The continuous attention of an individual driver is a necessity for the task of driving. While driving, certain levels of distraction can cause drivers to lose their atten...

Background/Objectives: Audio and audiovisual distraction can be effective additive tools to reduce anxiety and pain in patients receiving outpatient procedures (OP). Audiovisual distraction tools already showed positive effects on pain perception in...

While recent advancements have been made towards a better understanding of the involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in the context of cognitive control, the exact mechanism is still not fully understood. Successful behavior requires the correct...

Improving road safety is not only reliant on engineering aspects but also on the surrounding landscape, which plays an indispensable role in drivers’ visual perception. As a part of road landscapes, green areas affect road safety by screening o...

Background: Cough reflex sensitivity during cough challenge testing has been found to be modifiable with distraction in groups of healthy individuals. The purpose of this study was to examine this phenomenon in healthy controls and patients with refr...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct communication between the brain and external devices using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. BCIs based on code-modulated visual evoked potentials (cVEPs) are based on visual stimuli, thus appr...

The present study utilizes the significant differences in θ, α, and β band power spectra observed in electroencephalograms (EEGs) during distracted versus focused driving. Three subtasks, visual distraction, auditory distraction, and...

Successful performance of a task relies on selectively attending to the target, while ignoring distractions. Studies on perceptual load theory (PLT), conducted involving independent tasks with visual and auditory modalities, have shown that if a task...

A study was conducted to compare the efficacy of two methods of obtaining the joint exposure needed to perform arthrodesis or exploration of various joints of the foot. The investigation was performed by means of simulated arthrodesis in a cadaveric...

We used the dual-task paradigm to infer how linguistic information is represented in the brain by indexing its susceptibility to retrieval interference. We measured recognition memory, in bilingual Chinese-English, and monolingual English speakers. P...

Tracking drivers’ eyes and gazes is a topic of great interest in the research of advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS). It is especially a matter of serious discussion among the road safety researchers’ community, as visual distracti...

Driver distraction remains one of the leading causes of traffic accidents. Although deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Transformers have been extensively applied for distracted...

The weak association between flow experience and task performance (also known as weak flow-performance link) can reduce the positive effect of virtual reality (VR) applications. Distraction caused by incongruence between the primary task and interact...

This study aimed to identify the effect of distraction technique involving squeezing a squishy object on pain in children during intravenous catheter insertion. In this work, the control group posttest-only quasiexperimental design was used. This stu...

A systematic review and meta-analysis conducted to evaluate the combined effect of distraction intervention for needle-related pain in order to provide the basis for developing an effective nursing intervention for children. We searched three electro...

Interior design is considered and practiced as a visual discipline in architecture. The environment and buildings are appreciated through visual representations. We explored how sensory interactions shape a genuine multisensory experience with visual...

The increasing use of instructional videos in educational settings has emphasized the need for a deeper understanding of their design requirements. This study investigates the impact of virtual backgrounds in educational videos on students' visual in...

Scholars are interested in understanding human responses and perceptions concerning the configuration of streetscape environments that serve multiple functions. However, drivers’ visual attention to the streetscape has seldom been studied dynam...