Comprehension of new instructions for car drivers in merging areas

Hössinger, Reinhard; Berger, Walter

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2011.12.009

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“…Some recent studies revealed strong relationships between recognition of traffic signals and bodily actions. For example, traffic signals representing obligatory and prohibited actions effectively influence decision making and responses in appropriate mental processing of the signals’ meanings [ 37 – 39 ]. When recognizing traffic signs including the direction (represented by an arrow) of an airport (represented by an airplane), participants could also most rapidly and precisely detect the meaning of directionally congruent signs of the airplane and arrow [ 36 ].…”

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Traffic symbol recognition modulates bodily actions

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Traffic signals, i.e., iconic symbols conveying traffic rules, generally represent spatial or movement meanings, e.g., “Stop”, “Go”, “Bend warning”, or “No entry”, and we visually perceive these symbols and produce appropriate bodily actions. The traffic signals are clearly thought to assist in producing bodily actions such as going forward or stopping, and the combination of symbolic recognition through visual perception and production of bodily actions could be one example of embodied cognition. However, to what extent our bodily actions are associated with the symbolic representations of commonly used traffic signals remains unknown. Here we experimentally investigated how traffic symbol recognition cognitively affects bodily action patterns, by employing a simple stimulus-response task for traffic sign recognition with a response of either sliding or pushing down on a joystick in a gamepad. We found that when operating the joystick, participants’ slide reaction in response to the “Go” traffic symbol was significantly faster than their push reaction, while their response time to the “Stop” signal showed no differences between sliding and pushing actions. These results suggested that there was a possible association between certain action patterns and traffic symbol recognition, and in particular the “Go” symbol was congruent with a sliding action as a bodily response. Our findings may thus reveal an example of embodied cognition in visual perception of traffic signals.

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confidence: 99%