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This paper provides a critical review of laboratory-based studies of spatial attention. We highlight a number of ways in which such studies fail to capture the key factors/constraints that have been shown to give rise to an increased risk of vehicular accident in real-world situations. In particular, limitations that are related to the design of the attentional capture task itself and limitations that are concern the demographic and current state of the participants tested in these laboratory studies are discussed. A list of recommendations are made concerning those areas in which laboratory-based spatial attention research could focus on in the future in order to make sure that their results are more relevant to those working in an applied setting, and thus, enhance translational research. © 2014 IEEE.

Original publication

DOI

10.1109/THMS.2014.2316502

Type

Journal article

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Publication Date

01/01/2014

Volume

44

Pages

524 - 530