Nowadays apps and notifications have become major sources of distraction, which many drivers as well as pedestrians do not see as a problem at all.
Our children live in a complicated world, full of distractions, which leave them stressed and uncertain.
For the first level analysis we specified a general linear model in which events were sorted into several regressors as a function of the trial component, the distraction condition, and subsequent memory.
But former leader Lord Kinnock described such a vote on Europe as "a gigantic distraction (which) would disable political and economic activity in the rest of the EU".
Deflection signal as a function of degrees.
Records were sorted as a function of the factors condition (Ignore/Distraction/Detection), type of rule (Concrete/Abstract), and stimulus type (Standard [confirming the rule]/Deviant [violating the rule]).
In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next, from Facebook post to Tumblr feed to YouTube clip, from ego moment to snarky rant to carnal wormhole.
There are three types of distraction: manual distraction, which takes hands off the wheel; visual distraction, which pulls eyes from the road; and cognitive distraction, which take minds off the driving task.
The relative impact of automaticity is increased under conditions that militate against conscious processing, such as distraction (which consumes attentional resources), long retention intervals (which induce forgetting) or short response windows (which preclude conscious processes from coming into play).
This reflects larger changes in the design of therapeutic landscapes since 1980, which endeavor to normalize illness and death by engaging architecture as a tool of distraction.
