Assessing the effectiveness of various auditory cues in capturing a driver's visual attention.

@article{Ho2005AssessingTE,
  title={Assessing the effectiveness of various auditory cues in capturing a driver's visual attention.},
  author={Cristy Ho and Charles Spence},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Applied},
  year={2005},
  volume={11 3},
  pages={
          157-74
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6676232}
}
The results suggest that spatially predictive semantically meaningful auditory warning signals may provide a particularly effective means of capturing attention.
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