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Human hand moves proactively to the external stimulus: an evolutional strategy for minimizing transient error. Export

Phys Rev Lett, Vol. 93, No. 16. (15 October 2004)

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We investigated particularly the proactive nature of the visual-motor system by steady and transient experiments of a hand-tracking task, and confirmed that the hand motion precedes on the average the target motion in steady runs within a finite frequency range of the sinusoidal target motion. The question why and how much the hand motion should precede was answered by frequency-jump experiments. The results implied that the positive phase shift of the hand motion represents the proactive nature of the visual-motor control system which is adaptationally developed for each person to minimize the transient error of the hand motion when the target motion changes unexpectedly.


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