The closer the better hand proximity dynamically affects letter recognition accuracy
- 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.
| Author details: | Jos J. Adam, Thamar J. H. Bovend'Eerdt, Fleur E. P. van Dooren, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Jay Pratt |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0339-3 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3921 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Attention, perception, & psychophysics : AP&P ; a journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2012 |
| Publication year: | 2012 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Perception and action |
| Volume: | 74 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 1533 |
| Last Page: | 1538 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 607 |
