Influence of Motor Planning on Distance Perception Within the Peripersonal Space

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2012 May 1

PMID 22545092

Citations 11

Authors

Wladimir Kirsch

Oliver Herbort

Martin V Butz

Wilfried Kunde

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Abstract

We examined whether movement costs as defined by movement magnitude have an impact on distance perception in near space. In Experiment 1, participants were given a numerical cue regarding the amplitude of a hand movement to be carried out. Before the movement execution, the length of a visual distance had to be judged. These visual distances were judged to be larger, the larger the amplitude of the concurrently prepared hand movement was. In Experiment 2, in which numerical cues were merely memorized without concurrent movement planning, this general increase of distance with cue size was not observed. The results of these experiments indicate that visual perception of near space is specifically affected by the costs of planned hand movements.

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