Angle-of-approach and reversal-movement effects in lateral manual interception.

ABSTRACT: The present study sought to replicate two non-intuitive effects reported in the literature on lateral manual interception of uniformly moving targets, the angle-of-approach (AoA) effect and the reversal-movement (RM) effect. Both entail an influence of the target trajectory's incidence angle on the observed interceptive hand movements along the interception axis; they differ in the interception location considered. The AoA effect concerns all trajectory conditions requiring hand movement to allow successful interception, while the RM effect concerns the particular condition where the target will in fact arrive at the hand's initial position and no hand movement is therefore required but nevertheless regularly produced. Whereas the AoA effect has been systematically replicated, the RM effec

SUBMITTER: Ledouit S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580702 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature