TY - JOUR
T1 - Intermittent visual information and the multiple time scales of visual motor control of continuous isometric force production
AU - Sosnoff, Jacob J.
AU - Newell, Karl M.
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - In an experiment, we examined the effect of intermittency (from 25.6 Hz to 0.2 Hz) of visual information on continuous isometric force production as a function of force level (5%, 10%, 25%, and 50% of maximal voluntary contraction [MVC]). The amount of force variability decreased and the irregularity of force output increased as a function of increased visual intermittency rate. Vision was found to have an influence on the frequency structure of force output up to 12 Hz, and the 25% MVC force level had more high-frequency modulations with higher rates of visual information. The effective use of intermittent visual information is mediated nonlinearly by force level, and there are multiple time scales of visual control (range, -0-12 Hz) that are postulated to be a function of both feedback and feedforward control processes.
AB - In an experiment, we examined the effect of intermittency (from 25.6 Hz to 0.2 Hz) of visual information on continuous isometric force production as a function of force level (5%, 10%, 25%, and 50% of maximal voluntary contraction [MVC]). The amount of force variability decreased and the irregularity of force output increased as a function of increased visual intermittency rate. Vision was found to have an influence on the frequency structure of force output up to 12 Hz, and the 25% MVC force level had more high-frequency modulations with higher rates of visual information. The effective use of intermittent visual information is mediated nonlinearly by force level, and there are multiple time scales of visual control (range, -0-12 Hz) that are postulated to be a function of both feedback and feedforward control processes.
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U2 - 10.3758/BF03206496
DO - 10.3758/BF03206496
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15971695
AN - SCOPUS:21244486347
VL - 67
SP - 335
EP - 344
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
SN - 1943-3921
IS - 2
ER -