Visually and memory-guided grasping: Aperture shaping exhibits a time-dependent scaling to Weber's law

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1941-1948

  Holmes, Scott A ^a   Mulla, Ali ^a   Binsted, Gordon ^b   Heath, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Grasping; Memory; Perception; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WEBER LAW;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052162360     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Abbott B.C., Wilkie D.R. The relation between velocity of shortening and the tension-length curve of skeletal muscle. The Journal of Physiology 1953, 120:214-223.
2. Binsted G., Heath M. Can the motor system utilize a stored representation to control movement?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2004, 27:25-27.
3. Boring E.G. Sensation and perception in the history of experimental psychology 1942, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York.
4. Brainard D.H. The psychophysics toolbox. Spatial Vision 1997, 10:433-436.
5. Carlton L.G., Newell K.M. Force variability and characteristics of force production. Variability and motor control 1993, 15-36. Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, IL. K.M. Newell, D.M. Corcos (Eds.).
6. Churchill A., Hopkins B., Rönnqvist L., Vogt S. Vision of the hand and environmental context in human prehension. Experimental Brain Research 2000, 134:81-89.
7. Culham J.C., Cavina-Pratesi C., Singhal A. The role of parietal cortex in visuomotor control: What have we learned from neuroimaging?. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:2668-2684.
8. Daprati E., Gentilucci M. Grasping an illusion. Neuropsychologia 1997, 35:1577-1582.
9. Dember W.N., Warm J.S. Psychology of perception 1979, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York. 2nd ed.
10. Elliott D., Lee T.D. The role of target information on manual-aiming bias. Psychological Research 1995, 58:2-9.
11. Franz V.H. Manual size estimation: A neuropsychological measure of perception?. Experimental Brain Research 2003, 151:471-477.
12. Ganel T., Chajut E., Algom D. Visual coding for action violates fundamental psychophysical principles. Current Biology 2008, 18:R599-601.
13. Ganel T., Chajut E., Tanzer M., Algom D. Response: When does grasping escape Weber's law?. Current Biology 2008, 18:R1090-1091.
14. Glover S. Separate visual representations in the planning and control of action. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2004, 27:3-24. discussion 24-78.
15. Glover S., Dixon P. Motor adaptation to an optical illusion. Experimental Brain Research 2001, 137:254-258.
16. Glover S., Dixon P. Dynamic effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion in grasping: Support for a planning/control model of action. Perception & Psychophysics 2002, 64:266-278.
17. Goodale M.A., Milner A.D. Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Trends in Neurosciences 1992, 15:20-25.
18. Goodale M.A., Westwood D.A. An evolving view of duplex vision: Separate but interacting cortical pathways for perception and action. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2004, 14:203-211.
19. Haffenden A.M., Goodale M.A. The effect of pictorial illusion on prehension and perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1998, 10:122-136.
20. Harris C.M., Wolpert D.M. Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning. Nature 1998, 394:780-784.
21. Heath M. Role of limb and target vision in the online control of memory-guided reaches. Motor Control 2005, 9:281-311.
22. Heath M., Mulla A., Holmes S.A., Smuskowitz L.R. The visual coding of grip aperture shows an early but not late adherence to Weber's law. Neuroscience Letters 2011, 490:200-204.
23. Heath, M., Neely, K., Krigolson, O., & Binsted, G. (2010). Memory-guided reaching: What the visuomotor system knows and how long it knows it. In Vision and goal-directed reaching: Neurobehavioral perspectives (pp. 79-96). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers.
24. Heath M., Rival C., Westwood D.A., Neely K. Time course analysis of closed- and open-loop grasping of the Müller-Lyer illusion. Journal of Motor Behavior 2005, 37:179-185.
25. Heath M., Westwood D.A., Binsted G. The control of memory-guided reaching movements in peripersonal space. Motor Control 2004, 8:76-106.
26. Hesse C., Franz V.H. Grasping remembered objects: Exponential decay of the visual memory. Vision Research 2010, 50:2642-2650.
27. Jakobson L.S., Goodale M.A. Factors affecting higher-order movement planning: A kinematic analysis of human prehension. Experimental Brain Research 1991, 86:199-208.
28. Jeannerod M. The timing of natural prehension movements. Journal of Motor Behavior 1984, 16:235-254.
29. Lemay M., Proteau L. A distance effect in a manual aiming task to remembered targets: A test of three hypotheses. Experimental Brain Research 2001, 140:357-368.
30. Marks L.E., Algom D. Psychophysical scaling. Measurement, judgment, and decision making 1998, 81-178. Academic Press, San Diego. M.H. Birnbaum (Ed.).
31. Meyer D.E., Abrams R.A., Kornblum S., Wright C.E., Smith J.E. Optimality in human motor performance. Ideal control of rapid aimed movements. Psychological Review 1988, 95:340-370.
32. Newell K.M., Carlton L.G. On the relationship between peak force and peak force variability in isometric tasks. Journal of Motor Behavior 1985, 17:230-241.
33. Pedhazur E.J. Multiple regression in behavioral research: Explanation and prediction 1997, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Orlando. 3rd Edition.
34. Schmidt R.A., Zelaznik H., Hawkins B., Frank J.S., Quinn J.T. Motor- Output variability: A theory for the accuracy of rapid motor acts. Psychological Review 1979, 47:415-451.
35. Sherwood D.E., Schmidt R.A. The relationship between force and force variability in minimal and near-maximal static and dynamic contractions. Journal of Motor Behavior 1980, 12:75-89.
36. Smeets J.B.J., Brenner E. A new view on grasping. Motor Control 1999, 3:237-271.
37. Smeets J.B.J., Brenner E. Independent movements of the digits in grasping. Experimental Brain Research 2001, 139:92-100.
38. Smeets, Brenner E. Grasping Weber's law. Current Biology 2008, 18:R1089-R1090.
39. Valero-Cuevas F.J. Predictive modulation of muscle coordination pattern magnitude scales fingertip force magnitude over the voluntary range. Journal of Neurophysiology 2000, 83:1469-1479.
40. Westwood D.A., Goodale M.A. Perceptual illusion and the real-time control of action. Spatial Vision 2003, 16:243-254.
41. Westwood D.A., Chapman C.D., Roy E.A. Pantomimed actions may be controlled by the ventral visual stream. Experimental Brain Research 2000, 130:545-548.
42. Westwood D.A., Heath M., Roy E.A. No evidence for accurate visuomotor memory: Systematic and variable error in memory-guided reaching. Journal of Motor Behavior 2003, 35:127-133.
43. Wing A.M., Turton A., Fraser C. Grasp size and accuracy of approach in reaching. Journal of Motor Behavior 1986, 18:245-260.