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    Tool-use and near-tool effects: Exploring the influence of training demands

    Year: 2016, 2016
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Tracey, Gregory Evan, Thesis advisor (ths): Brown, Liana E, Degree committee member (dgc): Lehmann, Hugo, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>After active tool-use visual stimuli near a tool are processed more quickly and accurately than those farther away from a tool. Can these near-tool effects be modulated by training demands? To investigate this we asked the participants to complete a tool training task followed by a cross-modal interference task. During the training task the participants performed quick and accurate… more