Journal article
Attention affects visual perceptual processing near the hand
Psychological science, Vol.21(9), pp.1254-1258
09/2010
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610380697
PMID: 20713634
Abstract
Specialized, bimodal neural systems integrate visual and tactile information in the space near the hand. Here, we show that visuo-tactile representations allow attention to influence early perceptual processing, namely, figure-ground assignment. Regions that were reached toward were more likely than other regions to be assigned as foreground figures, and hand position competed with image-based information to bias figure-ground assignment. Our findings suggest that hand position allows attention to influence visual perceptual processing and that visual processes typically viewed as unimodal can be influenced by bimodal visuo-tactile representations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Attention affects visual perceptual processing near the hand
- Creators
- Joshua D Cosman - Departments of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407, USA. joshua-cosman@uiowa.eduShaun P Vecera
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychological science, Vol.21(9), pp.1254-1258
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1177/0956797610380697
- PMID
- 20713634
- ISSN
- 0956-7976
- eISSN
- 1467-9280
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984066386502771
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