@misc{WiemersFischer2016,
  author    = {Wiemers, Michael and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Effects of hand proximity and movement direction in spatial and temporal gap discrimination},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {428},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406568},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Previous research on the interplay between static manual postures and visual attention revealed enhanced visual selection near the hands (near-hand effect). During active movements there is also superior visual performance when moving toward compared to away from the stimulus (direction effect). The "modulated visual pathways" hypothesis argues that differential involvement of magno- and parvocellular visual processing streams causes the near-hand effect. The key finding supporting this hypothesis is an increase in temporal and a reduction in spatial processing in near-hand space (Gozli et al., 2012). Since this hypothesis has, so far, only been tested with static hand postures, we provide a conceptual replication of Gozli et al.'s (2012) result with moving hands, thus also probing the generality of the direction effect. Participants performed temporal or spatial gap discriminations while their right hand was moving below the display. In contrast to Gozli et al (2012), temporal gap discrimination was superior at intermediate and not near hand proximity. In spatial gap discrimination, a direction effect without hand proximity effect suggests that pragmatic attentional maps overshadowed temporal/spatial processing biases for far/near-hand space.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WiemersFischer2016,
  author    = {Wiemers, Michael and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Effects of Hand Proximity and Movement Direction in Spatial and Temporal Gap Discrimination},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01930},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{AdamBovend'EerdtDoorenetal.2012,
  author    = {Adam, Jos J. and Bovend'Eerdt, Thamar J. H. and Dooren, Fleur E. P. van and Fischer, Martin H. and Pratt, Jay},
  title     = {The closer the better},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {607},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43296},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432963},
  pages     = {1533 -- 1538},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {A growing literature has suggested that processing of visual information presented near the hands is facilitated. In this study, we investigated whether the near-hands superiority effect also occurs with the hands moving. In two experiments, participants performed a cyclical bimanual movement task requiring concurrent visual identification of briefly presented letters. For both the static and dynamic hand conditions, the results showed improved letter recognition performance with the hands closer to the stimuli. The finding that the encoding advantage for near-hand stimuli also occurred with the hands moving suggests that the effect is regulated in real time, in accordance with the concept of a bimodal neural system that dynamically updates hand position in external space.},
  language  = {en}
}