TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirsch, Wladimir
A1  - Kitzmann, Tim
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
T1  - Action affects perception through modulation of attention
JF  - Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
N2  - The present study explored the origin of perceptual changes repeatedly observed in the context of actions. In Experiment 1, participants tried to hit a circular target with a stylus movement under restricted feedback conditions. We measured the perception of target size during action planning and observed larger estimates for larger movement distances. In Experiment 2, we then tested the hypothesis that this action specific influence on perception is due to changes in the allocation of spatial attention. For this purpose, we replaced the hitting task by conditions of focused and distributed attention and measured the perception of the former target stimulus. The results revealed changes in the perceived stimulus size very similar to those observed in Experiment 1. These results indicate that action's effects on perception root in changes of spatial attention.
KW  - perception
KW  - action
KW  - attention
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-273176
SN  - 1943-393X
VL  - 83
IS  - 5
ER  -