The Perception & Action Podcast - Sports Science & Psychology Talk

How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance?  How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road?  How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47) Links to articles discussed: http://about.att.com/story/smartphone_use_while_driving_grows_beyond_texting.html Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning A meta-analysis of the effects of cell phones on driver performance A meta-analysis of the effects of texting on driving http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action Issues and challenges in developing representative tasks in sport  Monocular Optical Constraints on Collision Control   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research G