@article{ref1,
title="Misperceiving the speed-accuracy tradeoff: imagined movements and perceptual decisions",
journal="Experimental brain research",
year="2009",
author="Young, S. J. and Pratt, Jay and Chau, Tom",
volume="192",
number="1",
pages="121-132",
abstract="Research has suggested that prospective motor decisions are consistent with actual motor action. In a study that we recently published (Young et al. in Exp Brain Res 185:681-688, 2008), however, participants demonstrated a preference for closer targets that was inconsistent with the predictions of Fitts's law. With a pair of experiments, the present paper investigates the underlying basis of this non-optimal behaviour. Participants showed a similar deviation from Fitts's law when imagining movements-believing that movement duration increased with distance within the same index of difficulty. Participants did not behave similarly, however, in a perceptual version of the decision task. These results suggest that imagined movements and motor decisions are linked, as well as demonstrating one situation in which both show a similar deviation from the patterns of actual movement duration.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-4819",
doi="10.1007/s00221-008-1563-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1563-x"
}