ArticleVision (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Congruent Head Orientation in the Absence of Sight Facilitates Motor Performance.
Article in Vision (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
(1) Background: During fine motor object manipulation, head orientation towards the workspace allows the small receptive fields in our cone-rich fovea to perceive details required to complete the task. Here, we investigated whether a head orientation benefit remains even when sight is unavailable. (2) Methods: Blindfolded, sighted participants reconstructed three-dimensional objects in 45-degree leftward, centered (0-degree), and 45-degree rightward workspaces in conditions when their head was oriented either towards (congruent) or away from (incongruent) the workspace. (3) Results: Performance times were found to be significantly faster when the head was oriented towards the workspace even though vision was occluded. Moreover, the same benefit was found regardless of workspace location, suggesting the effect is unrelated to comfort or experience. (4) Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate a motor performance time benefit when there is a congruency between head orientation and workspace location in the absence of sight. Head orientation may align the visual system with the target of action, thereby enabling representational detail akin to that provided by the small receptive fields in the cone-rich fovea. This is the first study demonstrating the benefit of head orientation in blindfolded, sighted individuals.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.