@article{ref1,
title="Seeing while acting: Hand movements can modulate attentional capture by motion onset",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2011",
author="Gozli, Davood G. and Pratt, Jay",
volume="73",
number="8",
pages="2448-2456",
abstract="The onset of new motion has been shown to be a very robust cause of attentional capture, generating a processing advantage for the location of motion onset regardless of the observer's concurrent goal. The present study, motivated by the common-coding account of action and perception, examined whether the effect of motion onset on visual attention can be modulated by the observer's mode of action. Specifically, the common-coding account predicts that preparing an action can render the features that are used in the action plan less available for visual processes. Consistent with this hypothesis, in Experiment 1 the magnitude of attentional capture caused by a single motion onset was reduced when this motion was similar to the observer's response (i.e., along the same axis). Similarly, in Experiment 2 the onset of a response-different motion gained a processing advantage over the response-similar motion onset when the two were presented simultaneously. Since both types of motion were present in every trial, the results of Experiment 2 suggest that response similarity affected visual-attentional processes rather than motor processes. Together, these results suggest that the processes of attentional prioritization caused by motion onset can be modulated by the observer's concurrent action.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-011-0203-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0203-x"
}