MichaelHoward comments on Step Back - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Andy_McKenzie 09 May 2009 06:07PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 10 May 2009 07:50:00PM 1 point [-]

I'd wait for more study before taking this too seriously. As Chris Chatham also notes...

If stepping backwards is associated with the spreading of spatial attention (as seems reasonable - to make sure you don't fall over!) or simply with less acute vision than stepping to the side or forwards (as also seems reasonable - vision is probably better for objects that approach or stay the same than for those that at least momentarily recede), these effects could be just another demonstration of the well-known sensitivity of the Stroop task to vision and spatial attention.