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Wilfried Kunde1, Peter Wühr

  • 1Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. w.kunde@psych.uni-halle.de

Psychological Research
|November 11, 2003
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Action-induced blindness occurs when performing an action, like pressing a key, impairs perception of compatible stimuli. This effect extends beyond spatial tasks to verbal and color perception, highlighting shared conceptual codes.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Perception

Background:

  • Action-induced blindness, or the "blindness effect," is a phenomenon where performing an action impairs the perception of compatible stimuli.
  • Previous research suggested this effect might be linked to body-intrinsic hand-body connections.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the generality of the blindness effect to different response types and sensory domains.
  • To determine if the blindness effect is based on distal response locations or anatomical hand connections.
  • To explore the role of shared stimulus-response codes in producing blindness effects.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Manual key presses (left/right) and identification of spatial symbols (left/right arrows).
  • Experiment 2: Verbal responses (position words) and identification of written position words.

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  • Experiment 3: Vocalizing color words and perceiving color patches.

    • Main Results:

    • The blindness effect persisted regardless of the hand used, indicating it's based on distal response locations.
    • The effect extended to verbal responses, showing blindness to directly compatible position words but not orthogonally compatible ones.
    • Blindness was demonstrated between vocalizing color words and perceiving color patches, extending beyond the spatial domain.

    Conclusions:

    • Action-induced blindness is a broadly valid phenomenon.
    • It occurs when action and perception share the same conceptual codes.
    • The effect is driven by the use of identical stimulus-response codes, not just saliency matching.