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Driving with a satnav guiding you can be dangerous according to a study by the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience..

In tests it was demonstrated that the act of trying to retain a visual memory of an image from the satnav screen can lead to you missing events happening in front of your eyes.

This "inattentional blindness" has been demonstrated in other studies including the 'invisible gorrlla' where people shown a video of a basket ball game fail to notice the man dressed in a gorilla suit who walks across the court.

The research has shown that the increased memory load caused by having to retain the mental image of the directions displayed on the satnav causes the blindness to other events and hazards.

Source: University College of London

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Posted on Tuesday, October 02 @ 14:30:09 UTC by Darren Griffin

 
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