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SUBMITTER: Hu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2937283 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current biology : CB 20100501 10
Numerous studies have shown that extra-retinal signals can disambiguate motion information created by movements of the eye or head. We report a new form of cross-modal sensory integration in which the kinesthetic information generated by active hand movements essentially captures ambiguous visual motion information. Several previous studies have shown that active movement can bias observers' percepts of bi-stable stimuli; however, these effects seem to be best explained by attentional mechanisms ...[more]