TY - JOUR
T1 - Perception—Action Coupling during Bimanual Coordination
T2 - The Role of Visual Perception in the Coalition of Constraints That Govern Bimanual Action
AU - Swinnen, Stephan P.
AU - Li, Yong
AU - Wenderoth, Nicole
AU - Dounskaia, Natalia
AU - Byblow, Winston
AU - Stinear, Cathy
AU - Wagemans, Johan
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for the present study was provided through a grant from the Research Council of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Contract No. OT/03/61) and the Fund for Scientific Research in Flanders (Project G.0460.04) awarded to S. P. Swinnen.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Constraints pertaining to interlimb coordination have been studied extensively in the past decades. In this debate, F. Mechsner (2004) has taken a provocative position by putting primary emphasis on perceptual principles that mediate coordinative stability. Whereas the present authors agree that the role of perceptual principles is of critical importance during coordination, they take issue with Mechsner's extreme position and with the evidence forwarded to support a purely perceptual-cognitive approach to bimanual coordination. More specifically, the authors emphasize that current knowledge about brain function argues against a dualism between perception and action, criticize the presented evidence that posture manipulations during coordination provide decisive evidence against motoric and muscular constraints, and report on potential pitfalls associated with the use of visual transformation procedures to support complex coordination patterns.
AB - Constraints pertaining to interlimb coordination have been studied extensively in the past decades. In this debate, F. Mechsner (2004) has taken a provocative position by putting primary emphasis on perceptual principles that mediate coordinative stability. Whereas the present authors agree that the role of perceptual principles is of critical importance during coordination, they take issue with Mechsner's extreme position and with the evidence forwarded to support a purely perceptual-cognitive approach to bimanual coordination. More specifically, the authors emphasize that current knowledge about brain function argues against a dualism between perception and action, criticize the presented evidence that posture manipulations during coordination provide decisive evidence against motoric and muscular constraints, and report on potential pitfalls associated with the use of visual transformation procedures to support complex coordination patterns.
KW - Bimanual coordination
KW - Directional constraints
KW - Directional constraints
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U2 - 10.1080/00222895.2004.11008005
DO - 10.1080/00222895.2004.11008005
M3 - Article
C2 - 15695226
AN - SCOPUS:7744232400
SN - 0022-2895
VL - 36
SP - 394
EP - 398
JO - Journal of motor behavior
JF - Journal of motor behavior
IS - 4
ER -