A hand in blindsight: Hand placement near target improves size perception in the blind visual field

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 786-802

  Brown, Liana E ^a,b   Kroliczak, Greg ^a   Demonet, Jean François ^c   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

Bimodal cells; Blindsight; Motor control; Perceptual judgment; Prehension; Reaching and grasping; Residual vision; Size judgments; Size perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENINGITIS; PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERIMETRY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION, LOW; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 39149120580     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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