When Seeing Doesn't Matter: Assessing the After-Effects of Tactile Distractor Processing in the Blind and the Sighted

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1174-1181

  Frings, Christian ^a   Amendt, Anna ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modality specific selection; Negative priming; Tactile distractor processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; REPETITION PRIMING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; REPETITION PRIMING; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79961130563     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022336     Document Type: Article

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