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Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV

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Shallice's model on willed and automatic control <strong>of</strong> behaviour (Norman &<br />

Shallice, 1986; Shallice, 1988) and that also contains elements <strong>of</strong> the zero-risk<br />

model. This framework was proposed by Brouwer & Schmidt (2002) and in<br />

this thesis it is used to describe the processes that take place during hazard<br />

<strong>anticipation</strong> in both <strong>young</strong> <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> and older, more experienced<br />

<strong>drivers</strong>. The basic assumptions are that schemata in <strong>young</strong> <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> are<br />

less elaborated than in older, more experienced <strong>drivers</strong> and that the<br />

involvement <strong>of</strong> the SAS is larger in <strong>young</strong> <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> than in older, more<br />

experienced <strong>drivers</strong>. Some evidence was found in the literature, but there are<br />

indications that the SAS remains active during hazard <strong>anticipation</strong> in older,<br />

more experienced <strong>drivers</strong>, at least in laboratory conditions. How <strong>young</strong><br />

<strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> differ in hazard <strong>anticipation</strong> from older, more experienced<br />

<strong>drivers</strong> and what the influences <strong>of</strong> both experience and maturation are on<br />

hazard <strong>anticipation</strong> is explored in Chapter 4.<br />

The somatic marker hypothesis (Bechara et al., 1997; Damasio, 1994;<br />

Damasio et al., 1996) was introduced as a concept that can explain how<br />

<strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> may quickly learn to anticipate latent hazards from past<br />

events that evoked arousal. If <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> can learn to anticipate latent<br />

hazard by experiencing crashes and/or near crashes in a driving simulator is<br />

explored in Chapter 6.<br />

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