Prediction of a moving target's position in fast goal-directed action |
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Authors: | Jeroen B J Smeets Eli Brenner |
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Institution: | (1) Vakgroep Fysiologie, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, NL |
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Abstract: | Subjects made fast goal-directed arm movements towards moving targets. In some cases, the perceived direction of target motion
was manipulated by moving the background. By comparing the trajectories towards moving targets with those towards static targets,
we determined the position towards which subjects were aiming at movement onset. We showed that this position was an extrapolation
in the target’s perceived direction from its position at that moment using its perceived direction of motion. If subjects
were to continue to extrapolate in the perceived direction of target motion from the position at which they perceive the target
at each instant, the error would decrease during the movements. By analysing the differences between subjects’ arm movements
towards targets moving in different (apparent) directions with a linear second-order model, we show that the reduction in
the error that this predicts is not enough to explain how subjects compensate for their initial misjudgements.
Received: 10 February 1995/Accepted in revised form: 30 May 1995 |
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