Visual-spatial and anatomical constraints interact in a bimanual coordination task with transformed visual feedback

Eric Amazeen; Flavio DaSilva; Polemnia Amazeen

doi:10.1007/s00221-008-1490-x

Visual-spatial and anatomical constraints interact in a bimanual coordination task with transformed visual feedback

Eric Amazeen, Flavio DaSilva, Polemnia Amazeen

Psychology

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Abstract

There is a debate in the literature about the influence of spatial and anatomical constraints on bimanual coordination dynamics. In the present experiment, participants swung hand-held pendulums about the wrist while attending to visual feedback about relative phase (superimposed phase plots of each pendulum) that was displayed on a screen. Participants were instructed to maintain in-phase or anti-phase coordination in the visual display. Visual-spatial and anatomical constraints were dissociated by introducing a phase shift in the visual display so that visual feedback differed from the movements being performed by the participants in 15° increments from -180° to +180°. Analysis of mean relative phase and its variability suggested that visual-spatial and anatomical constraints interact in bimanual coordination dynamics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	13-24
Number of pages	12
Journal	Experimental Brain Research
Volume	191
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1490-x
State	Published - Oct 2008

Keywords

Anatomical constraints
Coordination dynamics
Relative phase
Spatial constraints

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