Chapter 2
Visual experience of the road for safe driving
Article outline
- 2.1Fundamental issues from behind the curtain
- 2.1.1Institutional and funding aspects of a call for proposals
- 2.1.2Rephrasing the question: Cooperation of knowledge domains
- 2.1.3The perspective of cognitive psychology
- 2.1.4Identifying categories of roads: Concepts and methods
- 2.1.4.1From natural categories to categories for roads
- 2.1.4.2The lexicon: From text units to road sections as stimuli
- 2.1.4.3From reading to driving: Designing adequate procedures
- 2.2Case studies: Re-presentations of roads for driving
- 2.2.1Visual perception and representations for action
- 2.2.1.1Material and stimuli set
- 2.2.1.2Procedure
- 2.2.1.3Participants
- 2.2.1.4Results
- Conclusions and further developments
- 2.2.2Photos vs. drawings: Re-presentations of roads
- 2.2.2.1Experiment 2A
- 2.2.2.2Experiment 2B
- 2.2.3Stimuli properties and participants’ previous knowledge
- 2.3Looking backwards from 20 years distance: Dead-ends and blooming springs
- 2.3.1Some methodological issues
- 2.3.2Beyond Rosch: Natural vs. action-centered and situated categories
- 2.3.3Knowledge and representations: Affordances and Umwelt
- 2.3.4Meaning, symbolic systems, languages, and experiential knowledge
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