Citation

Westwood DA, Jones SA, Cowper-Smith CD, Klein RM. Atten. Percept. Psychophys. 2013; 75(6): 1193-1205.

Affiliation

School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3J5, Canada, david.westwood@dal.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.3758/s13414-013-0470-9

PMID

23666630

Abstract

We explored the effect of trunk orientation on responses to visual targets in five experiments, following work suggesting a disengage deficit in covert orienting related to changes in the trunk orientation of healthy participants. In two experiments, participants responded to the color of a target appearing in the left or right visual field following a peripheral visual cue that was informative about target location. In three additional experiments, participants responded to the location (left/right) of a target using a spatially compatible motor response. In none of the experiments did trunk orientation interact with spatial-cuing effects, suggesting that orienting behavior is not affected by the rotation of the body relative to the head. Theoretical implications are discussed.

Language: en