@article{ref1,
title="The influence of near threshold visual distractors on perceptual detection and reaching movements",
journal="Journal of Neurophysiology",
year="2010",
author="Deplancke, A. and Madelain, L. and Chauvin, Alan and Cardoso-Leite, Pedro and Gorea, Andrei and Coello, Yann",
volume="104",
number="4",
pages="2249-2256",
abstract="Providing evidence against a dissociation between conscious vision for perception and unconscious vision for action, recent studies have suggested that perceptual and motor decisions are based on a unique signal but distinct decisional thresholds. The aim of the present study was to provide a direct test of this assumption in a perceptual-motor dual task involving arm movements. In 300 trials, 10 participants performed speeded pointing movements towards a highly visible target located at 10 degrees from the fixation point and +/-45 degrees from to the body midline. The target was preceded by one or two close to threshold distractor(s) (80ms SOA) presented +/-30 degrees according to the target location. After each pointing movement participants judged whether the distractor was present or not on either side of the target. Results showed a robust reaction time facilitation effect and a deviation towards the distractor when the distractor was both present and consciously perceived (Hit). A small reaction time facilitation was also observed when two distractors were physically present but undetected (Double-Miss) - this facilitation being highly correlated with the physical contrast of the distractors. These results are compatible with the theory proposing that perceptual and motor decisions are based on a common signal but emerge from a contrast dependent fixed threshold for motor responses and a variable context dependent criterion for perceptual responses. This paper thus extends to arm movement control previous findings related to oculomotor control.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3077",
doi="10.1152/jn.01123.2009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.01123.2009"
}