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Citation

Kunsman GW, Manno JE, Przekop MA, Manno BR. Percept. Mot. Skills 1991; 73(1): 255-264.

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130-3932.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1945702

Abstract

The Pursuit Meter III (PM III) and the Simultaneous Hand and Foot Tracking (SHAFT) task are microcomputer-based devices for the evaluation of human psychomotor performance. Both devices are pursuit-tracking tasks. The primary task (PM III) requires a subject superimpose a line over a computer-generated sine wave. The computer wave is black and the subject's wave is red. The vertical position of the subject's wave is determined by a joystick controller. The SHAFT adds a second simultaneous tracking task (FTT) that is operated by means of a foot control. Ten naive subjects performed either device for 5 sessions/day over a three-day period. Each session consisted of 5 sweeps of the sine wave pattern. Mean performance on both tasks generally improved over the assessment period, and differential stability was reached within 10 sweeps for each device.


Language: en

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