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Simple reaction time was measured after the participant was told to respond to the appearance of a visual stimulus after an auditory warning.
Both male and female velvet ants produce an auditory warning signal -- a loud squeak -- when harassed.
The present study focused on an engineering method, namely auditory warning sound (AWS), which calls driver's attention on driving tasks and helps them comply with roadside safety signs.
These results suggest that auditory warning systems for vehicles should avoid using emotion-laden sounds, as their affective content might diminish their utility to increase driving alertness.
In order to study the efficiency of additional auditory warning signals they might be equipped with, a sample of 100 sighted and 53 blind listeners was exposed to a virtual road-crossing scenario in which they had to detect whether an approaching vehicle came from the right or left.
If the driver exceeded the speed limit he or she was given a visual and auditory warning signal.
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As for warning signals, participants preferred auditory warnings, as opposed to visual, vibrotactile or electric stimuli.
The real-time mitigation system used visual and auditory warnings to alert the driver to distracting behavior.
In this review, we highlight the potential uses of such warning signals for future collision warning systems and compare them with more traditional visual and auditory warnings.
The results indicate that both contrast factors had an influence on the attention demand of the auditory warnings, but that the contrast with the irrelevant sounds was more potent for the specific stimuli investigated.
"It has nothing to with acoustics or taste," said Judy Edworthy, a professor of applied psychologist at the University of Plymouth in England who specializes in "alarms, auditory warnings, beeps and buzzers".
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