Pride and a Daily Marathon

Tactile selective attention and body posture: Assessing the multisensory contributions of vision and proprioception

“…However, in many everyday circumstances, proprioception is not the only source of information regarding limb position, since visual cues also play an important role in determining where we perceive our limbs to be. Unfortunately, there is no simple way by which one can eliminate proprioceptive cues in order to assess the net contribution of visual cues alone on the spatial frame of reference during tactile attention (but see Cole, 1991, for studies of a patient suffering from a chronic loss of proprioception attributable to pathological deafferentation). Therefore, in Experiment 5, we assessed the effects of visual information about body posture by placing visual and proprioceptive cues into conflict instead.…”

Spatial and physical frames of reference in positioning a limb

“…This nonvisual ability to achieve and maintain orientations of the limbs that have directional significance for a variety of tasks is not exhibited by people with peripheral neuropathy who lack muscular proprioception and cutaneous touch while still possessing all the means for bringing about muscular contractions. For them, directing the limbs relative to the body and to adjacent objects is possible only through continuous visual control and then only in a most restricted sense (Bernstein, 1996;Cole, 1995;Cole & Paillard, 1995). The control of the limbs by visual perception is a poor substitute for the control ofthe limbs by haptic perception.…”

The catchment feature model for multimodal language analysis

“…In fact, if these features were removed, and one has to rely solely on visual feedback for manipulation (e.g. opening virtual doors by turning the knob and pulling the door in a VR environment), fatigue sets in rapidly [3]. If, however, we employ a real artifact, it is as easy to instrument the artifact (e.g.…”