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William A. Johnston

Researcher at Baker Hughes

Publications -  79
Citations -  4969

William A. Johnston is an academic researcher from Baker Hughes. The author has contributed to research in topics: Optical fiber & Recall. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 78 publications receiving 4808 citations. Previous affiliations of William A. Johnston include Ohio State University & University of Utah.

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Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone

TL;DR: It is suggested that cellular-phone use disrupts performance by diverting attention to an engaging cognitive context other than the one immediately associated with driving.
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Cell phone-induced failures of visual attention during simulated driving.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the impairment of driving performance produced by cell phone conversations is mediated, at least in part, by reduced attention to visual inputs.
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The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

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TL;DR: The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) as mentioned in this paper is an extensively developed plan for a world-class experiment dedicated to addressing the early evolution of our universe, its current state and its eventual fate.
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Attention capture by novel stimuli.

TL;DR: This article found that when familiar and novel words were not intermixed (in 0:4 to 4:0 arrays), the localization accuracy was higher for familiar words than novel words.