Perceptuomotor skill acquisition in a solo manual ball-and-beam task with varying accuracy requirements.

ABSTRACT: In the manual ball-and-beam task, participants have to control a ball that is rolling continuously on a long and hand-held beam. Since the task can be performed individually, in a solo action setting, as well as collaboratively, in a (dyadic) joint action setting, it allows us to investigate how joint performances arise from individual performances, which we investigate in a series of interrelated studies. Here we focused on individual skill acquisition on the ball-and-beam task in the solo action setting, with the goal to characterize the behavioral dynamics that arise from learning to couple (ball motion) perception and (beam motion) action. By moving a beam extremity up and down to manipulate the beam's inclination angle, the task's objective was to roll the ball as fast as and accurate

SUBMITTER: Hafkamp MSJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11391423 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature