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Edited By L. Proteau, Department of Physical Education, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada D. Elliott, Motor Behaviour Laboratory, Department of Physical Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Description Since the classic studies of Woodworth (1899), the role of
vision in the control of movement has been an important
research topic in experimental
psychology. While many early
studies were concerned with the relative importance of vision
and kinesthesis and/or the time it takes to
use visual
information, recent theoretical and technical developments
have stimulated scientists to ask questions about “how”
different
sources of visual information contribute to motor
control in different contexts.
In this volume, articles are
presented that provide
a broad coverage of the current
research and theory on vision and human motor learning and
control. Many of the contributors are colleagues
that have met
over the years at the meetings and conferences concerned with
human movement. They represent a wide range of affiliation
and
background including kinesiology, physical education,
neurophysiology, cognitive psychology and neuropsychology.
Thus the topic of
vision and motor control is addressed from a
number of different perspectives. In general, each author sets
an empirical and theoretical
framework for their topic, and
then discusses current work from their own laboratory, and how
it fits into the larger context. A synthesis
chapter at the end of the volume identifies commonalities in the work and suggests directions for future experimentation.
Contents
Part One: Manual Aiming. 1. Visual processing time and the control of movement (L.G. Carlton). 2. Intermittent versus
continuous control of manual aiming movements (D. Elliott). 3. Visual feedback processing and manual
asymmetries: An evolving perspective
(R.G. Carson). 4. On the specificity of learning and the role of visual information for movement control (L. Proteau). 5. Adaptive eye-hand
coordination: Implications of prism adaptation for perceptual-motor organization (G.M. Redding, B. Wallace). 6. Coordination of eye and
hand for aimed limb movements (R.A. Abrams). 7. Visual-motor control in altered gravity (M.M. Cohen, R.B. Welch).
Part Two: Prehension
and gesturing. 8. Eye, head and hand coordination during manual aiming (H. Carnahan). 9. Functional characteristics of prehension:
From data to artificial neural networks (M. Jeannerod, R.G. Marteniuk). 10. The contributions of peripheral vision and central vision
to prehension (B. Sivak, C.L. MacKenzie). 11. Limb apraxia: A process approach (E.A. Roy, C. Hall).
Part Three: Spatial-Temporal
Anticipation. 12. Predictive visual information sources for the regulation of action with special emphasis on catching and hitting
(R.J. Bootsma, C.E. Peper). 13. Coincidence-anticipation timing: The perceptual-motor interface (M. Fleury et al.). 14. Time to contact
as a determiner of action: Vision and motor control (D. Goodman,
D.G. Liebermann).
Part Four: Posture and Locomotion.
15. The effect of eye closure on postural sway: Converging evidence from children and a Parkinson patient (J. Starkes, C. Riach, B. Clarke).
16. The role of vision in the planning and guidance of locomotion through the environment (J. Corlett).
17. Locomotor automatism and
visual feedback (J. Pailhous, M. Bonnard). 18. Visual perception of self-motion (D.R. Mestre). 19. The visual control of movement (D.J.
Weeks, R.W. Proctor). Subject Index.
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