Hand position alters vision by biasing processing through different visual pathways

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-250

  Gozli, Davood G ^a   West, Greg L ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action perception interface; Magnocellular; Near hand vision; Parvocellular; Perihand space; Visual pathways

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862639959     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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