Are object affordances fully automatic? A case of covert attention

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 797-802

  Makris, Stergios ^a   Hadar, Aviad A ^b   Yarrow, Kielan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actions; Affordances; Attention; Eye tracker; Objects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE HAND COORDINATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887529499     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033946     Document Type: Article

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