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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior
Published on: April 16, 2014
Preference of personal to extrapersonal space in a visuomotor task
1Helsinki University of Technology.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
|August 24, 2013
Abstract:
The speed of visually triggered movements depends, among other things, on the time needed for visuomotor transformations. We show that it takes on average 20-40 msec less time to respond to visual stimuli when they are projected on the reacting fingers than a few centimeters away from them. The result implies significant preference of the personal space to the extrapersonal space for stimuli used in the initiation of visually triggered movements.

