title: 125 years of perceptual-motor skill research.
abstract: This article celebrates the contribution that the American Journal of Psychology (AJP) has made to the area of perceptual-motor skill over its 125-year history. We highlight the articles published in AJP and trace the technical and theoretical developments that stem from this groundbreaking work. Included in our overview are AJP articles on the excitability of the motor system, motor learning, adaptation to visual rearrangement, the ecological approach to perception and action, and the measurement of human handedness. We conclude by identifying a number of areas associated with perceptual-motor skill where AJP continues to make an important contribution.
authors.affiliation: School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England. D.Elliott@ljmu.ac.uk
authors.forename: Digby
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Elliott
authors.forename: Spencer J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bennett
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D014796:Visual Perception