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Science Summary

A simulator study was done, testing twenty-one people, to determine whether singing to your music while driving affects your abilities. Each participant was put into a simulator three times, once while just driving, once while listening to music and driving and the last while singing along to music and driving. During each test they had to perform a PDT, peripheral detection task (Seriously Science). Researchers hypothesized that singing while driving would have the slowest response times and that driving abilities would be impaired. The study showed that just listening to music had the slowest response times of all, but both music conditions were “associated with slower speed-adjusted PDT response times and significantly less deviation within the lane”(Seriously Science). They determined that singing along to music was no more harmful while driving than just listening to the music. I would attest these problems related to music and driving to inattentional blindness, switching attention from one thing to another which leads to failure to notice a change in the first thing (Boyd 88). When people focus on singing the lyrics or listening to the music, they focus less on driving and therefore lose the capability to notice hazardous conditions while driving.

References: Seriously. "Does Singing along to Your Favorite Songs Make You a Worse Driver? - Seriously, Science? | DiscoverMagazine.com." //Seriously Science//. N.p., 24 July 2014. Web. 27 July 2014.

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/ Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print

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