TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adam, Jos J.
A1  - Bovend'Eerdt, Thamar J. H.
A1  - van Dooren, Fleur E. P.
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
T1  - The closer the better hand proximity dynamically affects letter recognition accuracy
JF  - Attention, perception, & psychophysics : AP&P ; a journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc.
N2  - 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.
KW  - Perception and action
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0339-3
SN  - 1943-3921
VL  - 74
IS  - 7
SP  - 1533
EP  - 1538
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Adam, Jos J.
A1  - Bovend'Eerdt, Thamar J. H.
A1  - Dooren, Fleur E. P. van
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
T1  - The closer the better
BT  - hand proximity dynamically affects letter recognition accuracy
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 607 
KW  - perception and action
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432963
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 607
SP  - 1533
EP  - 1538
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Festman, Yariv
A1  - Adam, Jos J.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Continuous hand movement induces a far-hand bias in attentional priority
JF  - Attention, perception, & psychophysics : AP&P ; a journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc.
N2  - Previous research on the interaction between manual action and visual perception has focused on discrete movements or static postures and discovered better performance near the hands (the near-hand effect). However, in everyday behaviors, the hands are usually moving continuously between possible targets. Therefore, the current study explored the effects of continuous hand motion on the allocation of visual attention. Eleven healthy adults performed a visual discrimination task during cyclical concealed hand movements underneath a display. Both the current hand position and its movement direction systematically contributed to participants' visual sensitivity. Discrimination performance increased substantially when the hand was distant from but moving toward the visual probe location (a far-hand effect). Implications of this novel observation are discussed.
KW  - Embodied perception
KW  - Attention: Selective
KW  - Goal-directed movements
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0430-4
SN  - 1943-3921
VL  - 75
IS  - 4
SP  - 644
EP  - 649
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Festman, Yariv
A1  - Adam, Jos J.
A1  - Pratt, Jay
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - 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, Festrnan 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.
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - covert attention
KW  - hand dynamics
KW  - near-hand effect
KW  - perception
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -