Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 539-550Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00799.x
Keywords
Aiming movement; Contingent Negative Variation; ERP; Generalized Motor Program; Movement planning; Response precuing
Funding
- Royal Society [23524]
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In the present study we investigated motor programming constraints implied by the Generalized Motor Program (GMP) view. A response precuing task was used in which participants performed aiming movements of either short or long duration to either a near or a far target position. Precues provided either no advance information or partial information about extent or duration or fully specified the aiming movement. Reaction time (RT) decreased and late Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) amplitude increased with the amount of advance information. In contrast to predictions of the GMP view, the extent precue led to faster responses and larger CNV amplitude than the duration precue. We conclude that late CNV amplitude reflects independent parameter specification processes at an abstract level at which GMP's motor programming constraints do not apply.
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