Here is a collection of links related to the use of Visual Occlusion.
This is a YouTube link to John Senders’ seminal introduction in the 1960’s of the concept of using visual occlusion to study attentional workload in driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOguslSPpqo .(This is the corresponding published study: J.W. Senders, A.B. Kristofferson, W.H. Levison, C.W. Dietrich, J.L. Ward: “The attentional demand of automobile driving.” Highway Research Record, No. 195, 1567, 15-33, 1967.)