Attention affects visual perceptual processing near the hand

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1254-1258

  Cosman, Joshua D ^a   Vecera, Shaun P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

action; attention; bimodal cells; cross modal; figure ground; proprioception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; HAND; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VISION;

ATTENTION; HAND; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649836150     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610380697     Document Type: Article

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