Journal of Motor Behavior back issues from January 2008:
Period basin of entrainment for unintentional visual coordination.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Researchers have demonstrated that a person's rhythmic movements can become unintentionally entrained to another person's rhythmic movements or an environmental event. There are indications, however, that in both cases the likelihood of entrainment depends on the difference ...
A method for obtaining psychophysical estimates of movement costs.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Although researchers generally accept the proposition that movement costs are taken into account in the planning of voluntary movements, there is no established psychophysical method for estimating such costs. The authors tested and introduce a possible method. Participants were ...
Children's use of the bearing angle in interceptive actions.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors investigated the effect of ball velocity and walking direction on children's adherence to the constant bearing angle (CBA) strategy. Children (N = 20) approached a moving ball to manually intercept it at a predefined target area. Results revealed that 10- to ...
Temporal dissociation between distractors and targets: the impact of residual distractor processing on target responses.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors manipulated the extent of distractor interference with learned, mapped responses by presenting distractors to participants (N = 16) before, simultaneously with, or after the target. Interference was significantly less when the distractor preceded the target's ...
Mechanisms that underlie coordination in children with developmental coordination disorder.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined potential mechanisms underlying motor coordination in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Because children with DCD experience difficulty processing visual, auditory, and vibrotactile information, the authors explored patterns of choice ...
Gender differences in the variability of lower extremity kinematics during treadmill locomotion.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined whether there were gender differences in the variability of basic gait parameters (stride length, stride time) and 3-dimensional (3D) rotations of the hip, knee, and ankle joints during treadmill locomotion of 18 men and 15 women at 4 different gait speeds ...
Implicit motor learning and complex decision making in time-constrained environments.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The cost-effectiveness of the implicit (procedural) knowledge that supports motor expertise enables surprisingly efficient performance when a decision and an action must occur in close temporal proximity. The authors argue that if novices learn the motor component of performance ...