Seeing while acting: Hand movements can modulate attentional capture by motion onset

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2448-2456

  Gozli, Davood G ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action planning; Attentional capture by motion onset; Common features for action and perception; Theory of Event Coding; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 81755161429     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0203-x     Document Type: Article

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