A century later: Woodworth's (1899) two-component model of goal-directed aiming.
In 1899, R. S. Woodworth published a seminal monograph, "The Accuracy of Voluntary Movement." As well as making a number of important empirical contributions, Woodworth presented a model of speed-accuracy relations in the control of upper limb movements. The model has come to be known as the two-component model because the control of speeded limb movements was hypothesized to entail both a central and a feedback-based component. Woodworth's (1899) ideas about the control of rapid aiming movements are evaluated in the context of current empirical and theoretical contributions.
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Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. elliott@mcmaster.ca
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D000054:Acceleration; D001288:Attention; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009949:Orientation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance