Effect of manipulating visual feedback parameters on eye and finger movements. 1995

A Beuter, and H Haverkamp, and L Glass, and L Carrière
Department of Kinanthropology, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada.

Thirteen healthy subjects were asked to maintain a constant index finger position in Experiment 1 or a constant eye position in Experiment 2 using visual feedback. The finger or eye position along with a stationary baseline target was displayed on an oscilloscope placed in front of the subject. Experiments 1 and 2 were carried out under sixteen combinations of delay and amplification of displacement on the screen (i.e., gain). In Experiment 1, increasing the gain in the visual feedback decreased the Root Mean Square (RMS) errors while increasing the delay increased these errors. An interaction between gains and delays was also observed in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, the RMS errors were systematically higher than those recorded in Experiment 1 for the finger. No systematic pattern was recognized across all conditions of gains and delays for eye movements in Experiment 2. This study clearly illustrates differences in dynamics of motor control systems regulating eye and finger positions, respectively.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009068 Movement The act, process, or result of passing from one place or position to another. It differs from LOCOMOTION in that locomotion is restricted to the passing of the whole body from one place to another, while movement encompasses both locomotion but also a change of the position of the whole body or any of its parts. Movement may be used with reference to humans, vertebrate and invertebrate animals, and microorganisms. Differentiate also from MOTOR ACTIVITY, movement associated with behavior. Movements
D011597 Psychomotor Performance The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity. Perceptual Motor Performance,Sensory Motor Performance,Visual Motor Coordination,Coordination, Visual Motor,Coordinations, Visual Motor,Motor Coordination, Visual,Motor Coordinations, Visual,Motor Performance, Perceptual,Motor Performance, Sensory,Motor Performances, Perceptual,Motor Performances, Sensory,Perceptual Motor Performances,Performance, Perceptual Motor,Performance, Psychomotor,Performance, Sensory Motor,Performances, Perceptual Motor,Performances, Psychomotor,Performances, Sensory Motor,Psychomotor Performances,Sensory Motor Performances,Visual Motor Coordinations
D005133 Eye Movements Voluntary or reflex-controlled movements of the eye. Eye Movement,Movement, Eye,Movements, Eye
D005246 Feedback A mechanism of communication within a system in that the input signal generates an output response which returns to influence the continued activity or productivity of that system. Feedbacks
D005385 Fingers Four or five slender jointed digits in humans and primates, attached to each HAND. Finger
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014785 Vision, Ocular The process in which light signals are transformed by the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS into electrical signals which can then be transmitted to the brain. Vision,Light Signal Transduction, Visual,Ocular Vision,Visual Light Signal Transduction,Visual Phototransduction,Visual Transduction,Phototransduction, Visual,Transduction, Visual

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