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Franz, V. H.; Scharnowski, F.; Gegenfurtner, K. R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The authors tested whether the effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion on grasping are corrected during late phases of the movement. Surprisingly, the grasp aperture was corrected neither under no-vision (N = 52) nor under full-vision (N = 48) conditions. The authors show that previous reports of a correction (e.g., S. Glover & P. Dixon, 2002a) are due…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Visual Perception, Reaction Time, Models
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Lu, Hongjing; Morrison, Robert G.; Hummel, John E.; Holyoak, Keith J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Previous research has shown that synchronized flicker can facilitate detection of a single Kanizsa square. The present study investigated the role of temporally structured priming in discrimination tasks involving perceptual relations between multiple Kanizsa-type figures. Results indicate that visual information presented as temporally structured…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Geometric Concepts, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination
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Lobjois, Regis; Benguigui, Nicolas; Bertsch, Jean – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether playing a specific ball sport, such as tennis, could maintain the coincidence-timing (CT) performance of older adults at a similar level to that of younger ones. To address this question, tennis players and nonplayers of three different age ranges (ages 20-30, 60-70, and 70-80 years)…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Racquet Sports, Older Adults, Young Adults