Mike Palij wrote: "it is clear that one had to actually read the article to make the driving connection".
Competing hypotheses: Hypo 1: Newspaper reporter who either subscribes to Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics or hits the academic library for story ideas every month, comes across a story titled, "Cognitive pitfall! Videogame players are not immune to dual-task costs" and reads it carefully to find the connection to multi-tasking while driving. Hypo 2: Reporter at newspaper in North Carolina near where study was done (at Duke) reads a PR writeup of the study as published by the university at: http://dibs.duke.edu/news/research-findings/2012/06/14/videogamers-no-better-at-talking-while-driving/ The PR writeup includes the headline: "Videogamers No Better at Talking While Driving". Parsimony rules. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Michael Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:28 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] Are Skilled Gamers Better At Driving and Phone Talking Than Non-Gamers? No. But it is interesting how a little article in the Psychonomics journal "Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics" generated an article for the popular media. Here is the pop account: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/06/18/2147835/gamers-dont-dial-and-drive.html And here a link to the original research article: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k7116k62242664p1/ Here is the reference and it is clear that one had to actually read the article to make the driving connection: Donohue, Sarah, James, Brittany, Eslick, Andrea, & Mitroff, Stephen (2012) Cognitive pitfall! Videogame players are not immune to dual-task costs. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 74(1) 1-7 Url: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0323-y Doi: 10.3758/s13414-012-0323-y -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=18513 or send a blank email to leave-18513-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18520 or send a blank email to leave-18520-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
