{"id":28536,"date":"2016-07-31T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/texting-pedestrians-exhibit-zombie-like-behaviour-say-montreal-researchers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:28:42","slug":"texting-pedestrians-exhibit-zombie-like-behaviour-say-montreal-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/texting-pedestrians-exhibit-zombie-like-behaviour-say-montreal-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Texting pedestrians exhibit \u201czombie-like\u201d behaviour, say Montreal researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zombies and texting.<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"A new study presented by researchers from the Tech3<\/sup>Lab<\/a> at HEC Montreal, along with the University of Montreal\u2019s Department of Psychology and the Centre hospitalier Notre-Dame has found that \u201cTexting while walking is a widespread and dangerous behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a research presentation called \u201cMobile Multitasking Distraction: A Pilot Study with Intracranial Electroencephalography\u201d<\/a>, researchers attempted to determine which neural circuitry is implicated in the act of texting while walking, with the aim of helping to develop future methods of mitigating \u201cthis dangerous habit\u201d and perhaps to \u201cassist the development of mobile applications aiming directly at the neural circuitry\u201d.<\/p>\n

While online marketers search for ways to increase user \u201cengagement\u201d with smartphones, it\u2019s precisely this engagement that puts people who walk and text at the same time at greatest risk.<\/p>\n

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Zombies and texting. A new study presented by researchers from the Tech3Lab at HEC Montreal, along with the University of Montreal\u2019s Department of Psychology and the Centre hospitalier Notre-Dame has found that \u201cTexting while walking is a widespread and dangerous behaviour.\u201d In a research presentation called \u201cMobile Multitasking Distraction: A Pilot Study with Intracranial Electroencephalography\u201d, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66712,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions\/66712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}