Exploring the Impact of Body Position on Attentional Orienting
Rébaï Soret,
Noemie Prea,
Vsevolod Peysakhovich
Abstract:Attentional orienting is a crucial process in perceiving our environment and guiding human behavior. Recent studies have suggested a forward attentional bias, where faster reactions are observed to spatial cues indicating information appearing in the forward rather than the rear direction. This study investigated how the body position affects attentional orienting, using a modified version of the Posner cueing task within a virtual reality environment. Participants, seated at a 90∘ angle or reclined at 45∘, fo… Show more
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