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Cycling Plus - the full references

Cycling Plus Magazine number 194 (March 2007) has a feature based on my research, mostly the really exciting stuff on how the tendency for some road users to remain looking human whilst travelling can affect their safety.

The list of references in that article is slightly curtailed, so here is the full list:

1. Walker, I. (2005). Signals are informative but slow down responses when drivers meet cyclists at road junctions. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 37, 1074-1085.
2. Walker, I. & Brosnan, M. (2007). Drivers’ gaze fixations during judgements about a bicyclist’s intentions. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 10, 90-98.
3. Gale, A., Spratt, G., Chapman, A.J., Smallbone, A., 1975. EEG correlates of eye contact and interpersonal distance. Biological Psychology, 3, 237–245.
4. Walker, I. (2007). Drivers overtaking bicyclists: Objective data on the effects of riding position, helmet use, vehicle type and apparent gender. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39, 417-425.
5. • Fantz, R.L. (1961). The origin of form perception. Scientific American, 204, 66–73
   • Goren, C., Sarty, M. & Wu, P. (1975). Visual following and pattern discrimination of face-like stimuli by new born infants, Pediatrics, 56, 544-549.
   • Johnson, M.H. & Morton, J. (1991). Biology and Cognitive Development: The Case of Face Recognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
   • Walton, G.E., Bower, N.J.A. & Bower, T.G.R. (1992). Recognition of familiar faces by newborns. Infant Behaviour and Development, 15, 265-269.
6. Driver, J., Davis, G., Ricciardelli, P., Kidd, P., Maxwell, E., & Baron-Cohen, S. Gaze perception triggers reflexive visuospatial orienting. Visual Cognition, 6, 509-540.

I can provide copies of my own papers on request if they’re for research purposes. The slightly less serious (although still accurate) analysis of white van overtaking can be found on Philica.

Finally, there’s an interesting little study of what people’s descriptions of road scenes tells us about their perceptions of different types of road user in Walker, I. (2005) Road users’ perceptions of other road users: Do different transport modes invoke qualitatively different concepts in observers? Advances in Transportation Studies, A6, 25-33.

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