Visual Perception of Writing and Pointing Movements
Studies of movement production have shown that the relationship between the amplitude of a movement and its duration varies according to the type of gesture. In the case of pointing movements the duration increases as a function of distance and width of the target (Pitts' law), whereas for writ...
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Published in | Perception (London) Vol. 34; no. 9; pp. 1061 - 1067 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London, England
SAGE Publications
01.01.2005
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Summary: | Studies of movement production have shown that the relationship between the amplitude of a movement and its duration varies according to the type of gesture. In the case of pointing movements the duration increases as a function of distance and width of the target (Pitts' law), whereas for writing movements the duration tends to remain constant across changes in trajectory length (isochrony principle). We compared the visual perception of these two categories of movement. The participants judged the speed of a light spot that portrayed the motion of the end-point of a hand-held pen (pointing or writing). For the two types of gesture we used 8 stimulus sizes (from 2.5 cm to 20 cm) and 32 durations (from 0.2 s to 1.75 s). Viewing each combination of size and duration, participants had to indicate whether the movement speed seemed “fast”, “slow”, or “correct”. Results showed that the participants' perceptual preferences were in agreement with the rules of movement production. The stimulus size was more influential in the pointing condition than in the writing condition. We consider that this finding reflects the influence of common representational resources for perceptual judgment and movement production. |
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ISSN: | 0301-0066 1468-4233 |
DOI: | 10.1068/p3388 |