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Abdollahipour, Reza; Psotta, Rudolf; Land, William M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Purpose: Studies have suggested that the use of visual information may underlie the benefit associated with an external focus of attention. Recent studies exploring this connection have primarily relied on motor tasks that involve manipulation of an object (object projection). The present study examined whether vision influences the effect of…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychomotor Skills, Object Manipulation, Human Body
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Longo, Matthew R.; Haggard, Patrick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Primary somatosensory maps in the brain represent the body as a discontinuous, fragmented set of two-dimensional (2-D) skin regions. We nevertheless experience our body as a coherent three-dimensional (3-D) volumetric object. The links between these different aspects of body representation, however, remain poorly understood. Perceiving the body's…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Cognitive Mapping, Perception