Attention to the hands disrupts skilled typewriting: The role of vision in producing the disruption

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2379-2383

  Tapp, Kristy M ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Hierarchical control; Monitoring; Typewriting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MOTOR SKILLS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 81755188444     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0208-5     Document Type: Article

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