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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| 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 | doaj.art-bbb5ecfc9c274d67b36d2767cbe1e10c2022-12-22T01:52:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782013-10-01410.3389/fpsyg.2013.0065754919Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attentionYariv eFestman0Jos eAdam1Jay ePratt2Martin H Fischer3University of PotsdamUniversity of MaastrichtUniversity of TorontoUniversity of PotsdamThe 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.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657/fullPerceptionEmbodied Cognitioncovert attentionhand dynamicsnear-hand effect |
| spellingShingle | Yariv eFestman Jos eAdam Jay ePratt Martin H Fischer Both hand position and movement direction modulate visual attention Frontiers in Psychology Perception Embodied Cognition covert attention hand dynamics near-hand effect |
| 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 | Perception Embodied Cognition covert attention hand dynamics near-hand effect |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00657/full |
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