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Citation

Osman A, Kornblum S, Meyer DE. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1990; 16(1): 183-198.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.

Erratum On

J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 1990 May;16(2):364

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2303798

Abstract

The complexity of a movement is known to affect the time it takes to initiate the movement. This effect is thought to reflect changes in the duration of processes that operate on a motor program. This question addressed here is whether programming a movement compels the start of its overt execution. If it does, then the programming processes may be said to occur after the "point of no return." We report results from an empirical procedure and a theoretical analysis designed to study processes before and after this point separately. According to our results, changes in the complexity of a movement affect only the prior set of processes. From this we argue that motor programming does not necessitate response execution and that the point of no return occurs very late in the information-processing system.


Language: en

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