Abstract

The project to be pursued concerns a new model of movement selection. The model is designed to explain how limb segments are recruited for reaching and other tasks. The assumed computations allow limb segments to compensate automatically for reduced mobility of other segments. In addition, the model explains established effects of practice, movement speed, and required accuracy, and predicts new effects to be tested experimentally. Although the planned research focuses on motor control, it draws upon and will contribute to other branches of cognitive and neural science, including those branches in which the evaluation of mental health relies heavily on the analysis of motor behavior.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research (K02)
Project #
5K02MH000977-02
Application #
3070331
Study Section
Perception and Cognition Review Committee (PEC)
Project Start
1992-09-30
Project End
1994-08-31
Budget Start
1993-09-01
Budget End
1994-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
1993
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
153223151
City
Amherst
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
01003

  Publications

Rosenbaum, David A; Chapman, Kate M; Weigelt, Matthias et al. (2012) Cognition, action, and object manipulation. Psychol Bull 138:924-46
Cohen, Rajal G; Rosenbaum, David A (2011) Prospective and retrospective effects in human motor control: planning grasps for object rotation and translation. Psychol Res 75:341-9
Walsh, Matthew M; Rosenbaum, David A (2009) Deciding how to act is not achieved by watching mental movies. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:1481-9
Rosenbaum, David A; Cohen, Rajal G; Dawson, Amanda M et al. (2009) The posture-based motion planning framework: new findings related to object manipulation, moving around obstacles, moving in three spatial dimensions, and haptic tracking. Adv Exp Med Biol 629:485-97
Zhang, Wei; Rosenbaum, David A (2008) Planning for manual positioning: the end-state comfort effect for manual abduction-adduction. Exp Brain Res 184:383-9
Rosenbaum, David A; Gaydos, Matthew J (2008) A method for obtaining psychophysical estimates of movement costs. J Mot Behav 40:11-7
van der Wel, Robrecht P R D; Fleckenstein, Robin M; Jax, Steven A et al. (2007) Hand path priming in manual obstacle avoidance: evidence for abstract spatiotemporal forms in human motor control. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:1117-26
Jax, Steven A; Rosenbaum, David A; Vaughan, Jonathan (2007) Extending Fitts'Law to manual obstacle avoidance. Exp Brain Res 180:775-9
van der Wel, Robrecht P R D; Rosenbaum, David A (2007) Coordination of locomotion and prehension. Exp Brain Res 176:281-7
Jax, Steven A; Rosenbaum, David A (2007) Hand path priming in manual obstacle avoidance: evidence that the dorsal stream does not only control visually guided actions in real time. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:425-41

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