Spatial Accuracy of Predictive Saccades Determines the Performance of Continuous Visuomotor Action.

ABSTRACT: In a table tennis rally, players perform interceptive actions on a moving ball continuously in a short time, such that the acquisition process of visual information is an important determinant of the performance of the action. However, because it is technically hard to measure gaze movement in a real game, little is known about how gaze behavior is conducted during the continuous visuomotor actions and contributes to the performance. To examine these points, we constructed a novel psychophysical experiment model enabling a continuous visuomotor task without spatial movement of any body parts, including the arm and head, and recorded the movement of the gaze and effector simultaneously at high spatiotemporal resolution. In the task, Gabor patches (target) moved one after another at a consta

SUBMITTER: Aoyama C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8801910 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature