TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual feedback schedules influence visuomotor resistance to the Müller-Lyer figures
AU - Heath, Matthew
AU - Rival, Christina
AU - Neely, Kristina
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - We examined whether blocked or random visual feedback schedules influence visuomotor resistance to the Müller-Lyer (ML) illusion. Participants completed closed-loop (CL) and open-loop (OL) grasping movements to an object embedded within fins-in and fins-out ML configurations. In the blocked feedback schedule, CL and OL trials were completed in separate blocks of trials, whereas visual conditions were randomly interleaved in the random feedback schedule. The results of the blocked feedback schedule showed that OL, but not CL, trials were influenced in a direction consistent with the perceptual effects of the ML illusion. For the random feedback schedule, however, both CL and OL trials were influenced by the illusion. We have interpreted these results to reflect the fact that participants evoked distinct control strategies based on the predicted availability of visual feedback. Specifically, the refractory nature of CL trials in the blocked feedback schedule suggests that advance knowledge that visual feedback would be available during a response encouraged an online control strategy wherein metrical visual information supported grasping. When visual feedback was unavailable (i.e., blocked OL trials), or could not be predicted in advance of a response (i.e., random CL and OL trials), it is proposed that movements were structured offline via perception-based visual information that was "tricked" by the cognitive properties of the ML illusion.
AB - We examined whether blocked or random visual feedback schedules influence visuomotor resistance to the Müller-Lyer (ML) illusion. Participants completed closed-loop (CL) and open-loop (OL) grasping movements to an object embedded within fins-in and fins-out ML configurations. In the blocked feedback schedule, CL and OL trials were completed in separate blocks of trials, whereas visual conditions were randomly interleaved in the random feedback schedule. The results of the blocked feedback schedule showed that OL, but not CL, trials were influenced in a direction consistent with the perceptual effects of the ML illusion. For the random feedback schedule, however, both CL and OL trials were influenced by the illusion. We have interpreted these results to reflect the fact that participants evoked distinct control strategies based on the predicted availability of visual feedback. Specifically, the refractory nature of CL trials in the blocked feedback schedule suggests that advance knowledge that visual feedback would be available during a response encouraged an online control strategy wherein metrical visual information supported grasping. When visual feedback was unavailable (i.e., blocked OL trials), or could not be predicted in advance of a response (i.e., random CL and OL trials), it is proposed that movements were structured offline via perception-based visual information that was "tricked" by the cognitive properties of the ML illusion.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00221-005-0095-x
DO - 10.1007/s00221-005-0095-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 16175361
AN - SCOPUS:29244435020
VL - 168
SP - 348
EP - 356
JO - Experimental Brain Research
JF - Experimental Brain Research
SN - 0014-4819
IS - 3
ER -