Notification alert! Effects of auditory text alerts on attention and heart rate variability across three developmental periods
| Autor: | Wythe L. Whiting, Karla Klein Murdock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Text Messaging medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Physiology business.industry Experimental and Cognitive Psychology General Medicine Middle Aged Audiology Young Adult Cognition Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Heart Rate Physiology (medical) Heart rate medicine Humans Heart rate variability Attention business Cell Phone General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 74:1900-1913 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0226 1747-0218 |
| Popis: | In a modern world saturated with cellphone-related stimuli, surprisingly little is known about their psychological effects. A small number of previous studies have found global distracting effects of cellphone rings on cognitive performance in undergraduate students. However, moment-to-moment reactions to cellphone sounds have not been investigated, nor have physiological changes that might accompany the cognitive effects. Developmental variations also remain unexamined. Thus, two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of cellphone notification sounds on cognitive performance (i.e., reaction time and accuracy on math problems) and heart rate variability in three age groups: adolescents (mean age: 15 years); young adults (mean age: 20 years); and mid-life adults (mean age: 48 years). Effects were most pronounced in the adolescent group, whose math problem accuracy and reaction time was compromised in response to notification sounds. These compromises were accompanied by increases in heart rate variability. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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