Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Police Quarterly
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Page, J. W.
Right arrow Articles by Lewinski, W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Pursuit Driver Training Improves Memory for Skill-Based Information

Jonathan W. Page

Minnesota State University

Corey M. Thibeault

Minnesota State University

Kasee F. Page

Force Science Research Center, Mankato

William Lewinski

Minnesota State University Force Science Research Center, Mankato

Police drivers must attend to information from multiple sensory modalities during a high-speed pursuit. This aises an important question: Does training facilitate the shifting of focus between visual and auditory modalities and the subsequent recall of information? The authors tested personnel from the London Metropolitan Police Service to see if various levels of driving training influenced memory recall during an attention-shifting task. Participants were presented standard and police-related memory items while simultaneously attending to distracters. Brain activity was measured to the presentation of the distracters to ensure participants are indeed paying attention to both tasks. The authors found that training did have a significant effect on memory for police-related items. The results are attributed to training because the experimental design ruled out concentration and natural ability as possible explanations.

Key Words: training • pursuit driving • memory • attention • multitasking

Police Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3, 353-365 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1098611107310315
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?