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The National Safety Council estimates that 28 percent of all highway accidents and deaths are caused by drivers ___1___ the road because they’re holding cell phones to their heads. But a study of 200 volunteers finds that one out of every 40 people apparently can operate a vehicle just fine while chatting on a phone. In ___2___ driving tests, anyway. The research by University of Utah psychologists Jason Watson and David Strayer will be published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Why are there so few great multi-taskers? The researchers say there may be ___3___, and that someone might excel at multi-tasking ___4___ other information processing. Or the high-tech environment that rewards multi-tasking is too new for the ability to have widely propagated, if there’s a true evolutionary advantage to having it.
The researchers want to study so-called supertaskers to find out how their brains do it. Meanwhile, don’t ___5___ you’re one of the very few who can apparently talk and drive safely. There’s a very high probability that you’re not.
The National Safety Council estimates that 28 percent of all highway accidents and deaths are caused by drivers ___1___ the road because they’re holding cell phones to their heads. But a study of 200 volunteers finds that one out of every 40 people apparently can operate a vehicle just fine while chatting on a phone. In ___2___ driving tests, anyway. The research by University of Utah psychologists Jason Watson and David Strayer will be published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Why are there so few great multi-taskers? The researchers say there may be ___3___, and that someone might excel at multi-tasking ___4___ other information processing. Or the high-tech environment that rewards multi-tasking is too new for the ability to have widely propagated, if there’s a true evolutionary advantage to having it.
The researchers want to study so-called supertaskers to find out how their brains do it. Meanwhile, don’t ___5___ you’re one of the very few who can apparently talk and drive safely. There’s a very high probability that you’re not.
paying poor attention to
simulated
a hidden cost
at the expense of
assume
据美国国家安全委员会估计，高速公路上发生的交通事故中有28%都是因为驾驶员拎着手机打电话，顾不上路面情况造成的。对200名志愿者进行的一项研究显示，每40人中只有一人能一边聊电话，一边自如地开车，虽然说这只是模拟驾驶。这项由犹他州立大学的杰森·沃森和大卫·斯瑞尔两位心理学家完成的研究将发表在《心理计量学公告与评论》上。
为什么能一心二用的人就那么少呢？研究人员称，这里有个一个隐藏的代价，有些人即使能够一心二用也是以牺牲其他信息的处理为代价的，抑或是高新技术环境真的先进到了无法普及的地步。
这些研究人员想要知道这些牛人是怎么做到的。不过你可别妄想你也能这么牛，这牛人十有八九不会是你的╮(╯▽╰)╭