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Pointing Treatments Are Task Relevant: A Visuomotor Priming Study

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  • Kevin Roche
  • Hanna Chainay

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The present study focused on priming effects on pointing with everyday objects. In a set of four experiments, a visuomotor priming paradigm was used to investigate the nature of visuomotor processing (automatic versus task relevant). By manipulating congruency of orientation and location we found that location congruency facilitates the initiation time of pointing whereas orientation congruency does not. We provide evidence to show that motor planning is influenced by the goal of the action, and that how visual information is processed and held in memory depends on the task relevance. These data are consistent with the proposed interaction between visuomotor and higher processes during the planning and execution of actions such as pointing.

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  • Kevin Roche & Hanna Chainay, 2014. "Pointing Treatments Are Task Relevant: A Visuomotor Priming Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(4), pages 1-9, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0096154
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096154
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