The codability of kinesthetic location and distance information.
- PubMed: 4679749
Abstract
An attempt was made to differentiate the influence that location and distance cues had in kinesthetic judgments involved in reproducing angular movement. Four different experimental conditions, that involved the manipulation of these cues, were used in an arm movement reproduction task. Analysis of constant error, absolute error and variable error revealed that movement reproduction was adversely influenced when distance cues were the only source of reliable information. It was also demonstrated that randomly induced passive movements had no influence on location reproduction and that the accuracy of reproducing a terminal location was independent of the starting location. These results were discussed in terms of the kind of information coded by the kinesthetic system and the types of sensory receptors underlying kinesthetic judgments.
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