Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T15:31:11.818Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Flawed kinematic models cannot provide insight into the nature of motor variability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Mark L. Latash
Affiliation:
Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 [email protected]
Gregor Schöner
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives (CNRS), Marseille Cedex 20, France

Abstract

Plamondon & Alimi's derivation of the kinematic model is mathematically flawed. By simply naming a particular parameter combination “variability,” the model fails to explicate the sources of variability. As a result, the model cannot distinguish between various sources of error, such as those resulting from task demands and those resulting from movement execution.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)