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Motor programming of response force and movement direction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

ROLF ULRICH
Affiliation:
University of Wuppertal, Germany
HARTMUT LEUTHOLD
Affiliation:
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
WERNER SOMMER
Affiliation:
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

Effects of movement advance information were assessed on the prestimulus amplitude of the lateralized readiness potential (LRP), on the contingent negative variation (CNV), and on reaction time (RT). In a precuing paradigm with movement parameters hand, direction, and force, partial precues provided advance information about either hand alone, hand plus force, or hand plus direction, and the full precue specified all response parameters. The full precue produced the shortest RTs and the largest CNV amplitude, precuing hand and force or hand and movement direction produced somewhat slower RTs and a somewhat smaller CNV amplitude, and precuing only hand yielded slowest RTs and the smallest CNV amplitude. In contrast, the LRP amplitude was largest for the full precue and was the same for the remaining precues. The CNV appears to index the central assembling of a motor program, and the LRP represents the implementation of the program at more peripheral levels.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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