Manual pointing to remembered targets...but also in a remembered visual context.
In this paper we investigated whether visual background information available during target presentation influences manual pointing to remembered targets. Younger and older participants manually pointed with their unseen hands to remembered or visible targets that were presented or not over a structured visible background. The results indicated that a structured visual background biased movement planning processes, but did not influence motor control processes, regardless of the fact that target location and the background were visible or remembered. How one uses visual background information for movement planning is not modified by aging.
Département de kinésiologie, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Station Downtown, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7.
Martin
M
Lemay
Sylvain
S
Gagnon
Luc
L
Proteau
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003463:Cues; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception