Department of Psychological Health, Wuhan Hankou Hospital, No. 7, 27 Side Road, Jiangan District, Wuhan City, 430010, Hubei Province, China.
Department of Psychological Science, College of Informatics and Human Communication, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Nonoichi, Japan.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Oct 12;11(1):334. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01381-2.
Although cell phones can provide great convenience to our lives, research has shown that they can also affect our behavior, even when not in use. It seems that having a cell phone nearby may not be ideal when the user needs to concentrate on work. However, little is known about whether cell phone presence specifically impairs attentional control.
This study investigated whether cell phone presence can influence attentional control in the Navon task, which involves spatial switching of attention between global and local levels.
It was found that the reaction time for all types of trials decreased when the participants had a cell phone nearby compared to when they had a mobile battery nearby. It was also found that phone dependency led to more incorrect responses among participants, but this effect was independent of the influence of phone presence on the Navon task performance.
These findings indicate that cell phone presence may have a positive influence on the perceptual process of the Navon letter, suggesting that the effects of phone presence are not always negative. One implication provided by this study is that it is possible to challenge the assertion that cell phones should always be excluded from the workplace by highlighting the positive effects of their presence.
尽管手机给我们的生活带来了极大的便利，但研究表明，即使手机未被使用，它们也会影响我们的行为。当用户需要集中精力工作时，手机在身边似乎并不是理想的状态。然而，对于手机的存在是否会特别影响注意力控制，我们知之甚少。
本研究调查了手机的存在是否会影响纳冯任务中的注意力控制，纳冯任务涉及在全局和局部水平之间进行注意力的空间切换。
研究发现，与手机电池在身边相比，当参与者身边有手机时，所有类型的试验的反应时间都减少了。还发现，手机依赖导致参与者的错误反应增多，但这种影响与手机对纳冯任务表现的影响无关。
这些发现表明，手机的存在可能对纳冯字母的感知过程有积极影响，这表明手机存在的影响并不总是负面的。本研究提出的一个含义是，通过强调手机存在的积极影响，有可能挑战手机在工作场所应始终被排除的观点。
