Publications by authors named "Louise Giraudet"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how cognitive and perceptual demands affect inattentional deafness, where people fail to hear certain sounds while focusing on tasks.
- Twenty participants completed Air Traffic Control tasks with varying levels of cognitive (low vs. high) and perceptual loads (low vs. high), while also listening for specific tones.
- Results indicated that higher cognitive load increased the rate of missed alarms, and participants who failed to report tones had smaller pupil diameters, suggesting lapses in attention linked to inattentional deafness.
An analysis of airplane accidents reveals that pilots sometimes purely fail to react to critical auditory alerts. This inability of an auditory stimulus to reach consciousness has been coined under the term of inattentional deafness. Recent data from literature tends to show that tasks involving high cognitive load consume most of the attentional capacities, leaving little or none remaining for processing any unexpected information.
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