Crossmodal Information Processing in Driving

Recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience are beginning to have an increasingly important impact on the design of everything from the food we eat to the cars we drive. The research that is being conducted in Oxford is based on trying to understand the rules used by the human brain to combine the various sensory cues that are available to it, and then seeing how those rules can be applied to help design “things” more effectively. This chapter tried to show some of the ways in which such cognitive neuroscience findings are increasing coming to influence the design of multimodal (or multisensory) driver interfaces and warning signals.

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