Pollux, Petra and Bourke, Patrick (2008) Influence of hand position on the near-effect in 3D attention. Perception and Psychophysics, 70 (7). pp. 1383-1392. ISSN 1943-3921
Full content URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.7.1383
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
Voluntary reorienting of attention in real depth situations is characterized by an attentional bias to locations near the viewer once attention is deployed to a spatially cued object in depth. Previously this effect (initially referred to as the ‘near-effect’) was attributed to access of a 3D viewer-centred spatial representation for guiding attention in 3D space. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the near-bias could have been associated with the position of the response-hand, always near the viewer in previous studies investigating endogenous attentional shifts in real depth. In Experiment 1, the response-hand was placed at either the near or far target depth in a depth cueing task. Placing the response-hand at the far target depth abolished the near-effect, but failed to bias spatial attention to the far location. Experiment 2 showed that the response-hand effect was not modulated by the presence of an additional passive hand, whereas Experiment 3 confirmed that attentional prioritization of the passive hand was not masked by the influence of the responding hand on spatial attention in Experiment 2. The pattern of results is most consistent with the idea that response preparation can modulate spatial attention within a 3D viewer-centred spatial representation.
Keywords: | Near-effect, 3D attention |
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Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology C Biological Sciences > C850 Cognitive Psychology |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Psychology |
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ID Code: | 2987 |
Deposited On: | 21 Jul 2010 10:21 |
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