科學60秒:一心二用，鳳毛麟角
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2011-04-07 11:33
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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.
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據(jù)美國國家安全委員會估計，高速公路上發(fā)生的交通事故中有28%都是因為駕駛員拎著手機打電話，顧不上路面情況造成的。對200名志愿者進行的一項研究顯示，每40人中只有一人能一邊聊電話，一邊自如地開車，雖然說這只是模擬駕駛。這項由猶他州立大學的杰森·沃森和大衛(wèi)·斯瑞爾兩位心理學家完成的研究將發(fā)表在《心理計量學公告與評論》上。
為什么能一心二用的人就那么少呢？研究人員稱，這里有個一個隱藏的代價，有些人即使能夠一心二用也是以犧牲其他信息的處理為代價的，抑或是高新技術環(huán)境真的先進到了無法普及的地步。
這些研究人員想要知道這些牛人是怎么做到的。不過你可別妄想你也能這么牛，這牛人十有八九不會是你的╮(╯▽╰)╭
