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Roberts, JW, Blinch, J, Elliott, D, Chua, R, Lyons, JL and Welsh, TN (2016) The violation of Fitts' Law: an examination of displacement biases and corrective submovements. Experimental Brain Research, 234 (8). pp. 2151-2163. ISSN 0014-4819
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Abstract
Fitts’ Law holds that, to maintain accuracy, movement times of aiming movements must change as a result of varying degrees of movement difficulty. Recent evidence has emerged that aiming to a target located last in an array of placeholders results in a shorter movement time than would be expected by the Fitts’ equation—a violation of Fitts’ Law. It has been suggested that the violation emerges because the performer adopts an optimized movement strategy in which they partially pre-plan an action to the closest placeholder (undershoot the last placeholder) and rely on a secondary acceleration to propel the limb toward the last location when it is selected as the target (Glazebrook et al. in Hum Mov Sci 39:163–176, 2015). In the current study, we examine this proposal and further elucidate the processes underlying the violation by examining limb displacement and corrective submovements that occur when performers aim to different target locations. For our Main Study, participants executed discrete aiming movements in a five-placeholder array. We also reanalyzed data from a previously reported study in which participants aimed in placeholder and no-placeholder conditions (Blinch et al. in Exp Brain Res 223:505–515, 2012). The results showed the violation of Fitts’ Law unfolded following peak velocity (online control). Further, the analysis showed that movements to the last target tended to overshoot and had a higher proportion of secondary submovements featuring a reversal than other categories of submovement (secondary accelerations, discontinuities). These findings indicate that the violation of Fitts’ Law may, in fact, result from a strategic bias toward planning farther initial displacements of the limb which accommodates a shorter time in online control.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Experimental Brain Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4618-4 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Springer |
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| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2020 13:33 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 08:02 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1007/s00221-016-4618-4 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12123 |
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