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Attending to what you are doing: Neuropsychological and experimental evidence for interactions between perception and action

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What are the relations between perceptual selection (e.g. for object identification) and action selection (the selection of an appropriate action to an object)? We discuss four pieces of novel neuropsychological and experimental evidence indicating that perception and action interact in determining human performance. First, we show that action relations between stimuli constrain the amount of visual extinction present in neuropsychological patients. There is less extinction when objects are i...

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10.4324/9780203449226

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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Psychology Press
Host title:
Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience
Pages:
3-25
Publication date:
2004-11-24
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ISBN-10:
0203449223
ISBN-13:
9780203449226
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pubs:480798
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uuid:02ca64a9-cecf-411b-be03-3c6c1d91dbcf
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pubs:480798
Source identifiers:
480798
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2014-08-22

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