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Article Dans Une Revue Experimental Brain Research Année : 1994

Misdirections in slow, goal-directed arm movements are not primarily visually based

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In a previous study we found that the initial direction of slow, goal-directed arm movements deviates consistently from the direction of the actual straight line between the starting position and the target position. We now investigate whether these deviations are caused by imperfections or peculiarities in the processing of vision-related spatial information, such as retinal information, and eye-and head-position information. This could lead to incorrect localiza-tion of the target relative to the starting position. Subjects were seated in front of a horizontal surface and had to move their arm slowly and accurately in the direction of target positions. We varied the amount of vision-related spatial information. In experiment 1, subjects were presented with visual targets and could see their moving arm. In experiment 2, the subjects were again presented with visual targets, but now they could not see their moving arm. In experiment 3, the subjects were blindfolded and had to move their arm towards tactile targets. In all three experiments we found comparable consistent deviations in the initial movement direction. We also instructed congenitally and early-blind subjects to move their arm towards tactile targets. Their performance showed deviations congruous with those found in the sighted subjects, and possibly somewhat larger. We conclude that the deviations in the initial movement direction of slow, goal-directed arm movements are not primarily visually based. The deviations are generated after all spatial information has been integrated.

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J B de Graaf, A C Sittig, J J Denier van Der Gon. Misdirections in slow, goal-directed arm movements are not primarily visually based. Experimental Brain Research, 1994, 99, pp.464-472. ⟨hal-01453481⟩
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