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ON THE NONVISUAL CUES CONTROLLING THROWlNG MOVEMENTS
Author(s) -
Mikkonen V.,
Kolehmainen K.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1968.tb00532.x
Subject(s) - throwing , head (geology) , psychology , movement (music) , face (sociological concept) , communication , cognitive psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , aeronautics , medicine , acoustics , engineering , physics , social science , geomorphology , sociology , geology
M ikkonen , V. & K olehmainen , K. On the nonvisual cues controlling throwing movements. Scand. J. Psychol ., 1968, 9, 169–176.—When position of subject's head is varied (his eyes fixating the target) in dart throwing experiments, systematic errors occur in the throws in the direction in which the head is turned. Subjects trained to hit the target with the head turned to the side, and then allowed to throw with the face towards the target, make errors in the direction opposite to that in which the head was turned during training. The most recently learned relationship between head and hand thus tends to guide the throws. Changes occur primarily in the direction of the throwing movement, the starting position of the throwing hand being relatively stable.