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ABC Live:Listening to mobile phones while driving distracts drivers at the same extent as alcohol does even if the cell phones are hand free or voice-activated shows study conducted by the scientists of Carnegie Mellon University.

Listening to mobile phones while driving distracts drivers at the same extent as alcohol does even if the cell phones are hand free or voice-activated shows study conducted by the scientists of Carnegie Mellon University.

Listening alone reduces 37% of brain activity while driving and a person using cell phones while driving do same type of mistakes as an alcoholic does during driving.

According to a neuroscientist of Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging “Drivers need to keep not only their hands on the wheel; they also have to keep their brains on the road".

Parietal lobe of the brain is associated with driving, and listening while driving decreases 37% activity of brain. This part of brain put together the sensory information and is important for direction finding and spatial sense. Mixing driving with listening also reduces activity of occipital lobe of brain which is responsible for visual information.

Study has been done on 29 volunteers while using driving simulator under a MRI brain scanner. Team of scientists used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to measure activity in 20,000 brain locations every second while steering a car along a virtual winding road at a fixed, challenging speed, while in undisturbed state or while deciding whether the sentence they heard were true or false.