Gestalt grouping effects on tactile information processing: When touching hands override spatial proximity

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 468-480

  Frings, Christian ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grouping and segmentation; Negative priming; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HAND; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875975238     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0417-6     Document Type: Article

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