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Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention
The current study explored effects of continuous hand motion on the allocation of visual attention. A concurrent paradigm was used to combine visually concealed continuous hand movements with an attentionally demanding letter discrimination task. The letter probe appeared contingent upon the moving...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24098288 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657 |
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author | Festman, Yariv Adam, Jos J. Pratt, Jay Fischer, Martin H. |
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description | The current study explored effects of continuous hand motion on the allocation of visual attention. A concurrent paradigm was used to combine visually concealed continuous hand movements with an attentionally demanding letter discrimination task. The letter probe appeared contingent upon the moving right hand passing through one of six positions. Discrimination responses were then collected via a keyboard press with the static left hand. Both the right hand's position and its movement direction systematically contributed to participants' visual sensitivity. Discrimination performance increased substantially when the right hand was distant from, but moving toward the visual probe location (replicating the far-hand effect, Festman et al., 2013). However, this effect disappeared when the probe appeared close to the static left hand, supporting the view that static and dynamic features of both hands combine in modulating pragmatic maps of attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-37875932013-10-04 Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention Festman, Yariv Adam, Jos J. Pratt, Jay Fischer, Martin H. Front Psychol Psychology The current study explored effects of continuous hand motion on the allocation of visual attention. A concurrent paradigm was used to combine visually concealed continuous hand movements with an attentionally demanding letter discrimination task. The letter probe appeared contingent upon the moving right hand passing through one of six positions. Discrimination responses were then collected via a keyboard press with the static left hand. Both the right hand's position and its movement direction systematically contributed to participants' visual sensitivity. Discrimination performance increased substantially when the right hand was distant from, but moving toward the visual probe location (replicating the far-hand effect, Festman et al., 2013). However, this effect disappeared when the probe appeared close to the static left hand, supporting the view that static and dynamic features of both hands combine in modulating pragmatic maps of attention. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3787593/ /pubmed/24098288 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657 Text en Copyright © 2013 Festman, Adam, Pratt and Fischer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Festman, Yariv Adam, Jos J. Pratt, Jay Fischer, Martin H. Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title | Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title_full | Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title_fullStr | Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title_full_unstemmed | Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title_short | Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
title_sort | both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24098288 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657 |
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