title: Different damping responses explain vertical endpoint error differences between visual conditions.
abstract: Upright people making goal-directed movements in dark environments often vertically undershoot remembered target locations when compared to performances in illuminated environments. In this study, we wanted to determine whether influences of the gravitational pull and/or type of muscle activation could explain differences in vertical endpoint precision between movements to visually remembered target locations with and without allocentric cues available. We also used a simple damping model for movement trajectories to describe potential differences in behavior between visual conditions. Subjects performed straight arm pointing movements to REAL target locations or remembered target locations in darkness (DARK) or normal room lighting (LIGHT). Performances were made from UPRIGHT and INVERTED (upside down) body orientations. Starting arm position (UP by the ear; DOWN on the thigh) also varied so that eccentric or concentric muscle contractions for arm flexion or extension movements occurred primarily along the earth-fixed vertical either with or against the gravitational pull. Effects of visual condition (LIGHT, DARK), body orientation (UPRIGHT, INVERTED), starting arm position (UP, DOWN), and target level (Near, Middle, Far) on elevation endpoint errors revealed that subject's errors in the DARK were more negative than those in the LIGHT. Errors correlated well with movement displacement to reveal the common vertical undershooting bias in darkness exacerbated by inverting the body or requiring greater movement excursions. Although influences of gravitational pull and muscle activation type could not explain differences between visual conditions, modeling revealed critically damped behavior in the DARK and under-damped behavior in the LIGHT to indicate muscle energy dissipation without vision.
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, 112 H.P. Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA. jhondz1@lsu.edu.
authors.forename: Jan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hondzinski
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, 112 H.P. Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
authors.forename: Chelsea M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Soebbing
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, 112 H.P. Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
authors.forename: Allyson E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: French
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, 112 H.P. Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
authors.forename: Sara A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Winges
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D065852:Spatial Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Damping index; Gravitational pull; Kinesthesia; Proprioception; Vision
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