The closer the better: Hand proximity dynamically affects letter recognition accuracy

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1533-1538

  Adam, Jos J ^a   Bovend'Eerdt, Thamar J H ^a   van Dooren, Fleur E P ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b   Pratt, Jay ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Perception and action

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866551103     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0339-3     Document Type: Article

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