Journal
CORTEX
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 204-212Publisher
ELSEVIER MASSON, CORP OFF
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.021
Keywords
Hand movement; Selection; Averaging; Accuracy; Motor plan
Funding
- Open Research Area Grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [ORA 464-15-193]
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The processes underlying target selection for hand movements may operate independently from those for eye movements. Contrary to eye movements, the presence of distractors does not lead to a bias effect in hand movements.
When interacting with the environment, our manual actions are often preceded by an eye movement. This suggests that the processes underlying target selection in hand and eye movements may be coupled. It is known that when a distractor is presented close to a target, the endpoint of an eye movement will be biased towards the distractor. The size of this so-called global effect decreases when more viewing time is available. Here we investigate whether a similar effect is also present in hand movements. If the processes underlying target selection for hand and eye movements are indeed coupled, a similar bias should be present in hand movements as well. To test this, we adopted a classic global effect paradigm but applied it to goal-directed hand movements. We show that the endpoints of hand movements are unbiased for all but one participant, irrespective of the viewing time. These results suggest that the processes underlying target selection for hand movements operate independently from those for eye movements. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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