Lost in the move? Secondary task performance impairs tactile change detection on the body

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 215-229

  Gallace, Alberto ^a,b   Zeeden, Sophia ^b,c   Röder, Brigitte ^c   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness of touch; Change blindness; Sensory suppression; Spatial processing; Tactile information processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649234189     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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