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Continuous hand movement induces a far-hand bias in attentional priority

  • 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.

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Author details:Yariv Festman, Jos J. Adam, Jay Pratt, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0430-4
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:2013
Publication year:2013
Release date:2017/03/26
Tag:Attention: Selective; Embodied perception; Goal-directed movements
Volume:75
Issue:4
Number of pages:6
First page:644
Last Page:649
Organizational units:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie
Peer review:Referiert
Institution name at the time of the publication:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie
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