Continuous peripersonal tracking accuracy is limited by the speed and phase of locomotion.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence suggests that perceptual and cognitive functions are codetermined by rhythmic bodily states. Prior investigations have focused on the cardiac and respiratory rhythms, both of which are also known to synchronise with locomotion-arguably our most common and natural of voluntary behaviours. Compared to the cardiorespiratory rhythms, walking is easier to voluntarily control, enabling a test of how natural and voluntary rhythmic action may affect sensory function. Here we show that the speed and phase of human locomotion constrains sensorimotor performance. We used a continuous visuo-motor tracking task in a wireless, body-tracking virtual environment, and found that the accuracy and reaction time of continuous reaching movements were decreased at slower walking speeds, and rhyt

SUBMITTER: Davidson MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10491677 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature