Switching between global and local scopes of attention is resisted near the hands

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 659-668

  Davoli, Christopher C ^a   Brockmole, James R ^a   Du, Feng ^b   Abrams, Richard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied Cognition; Global Local Processing; Selective attention; Task Switching; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84863488556     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.683049     Document Type: Article

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