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Motor Programming, Movement Production, and Eye-Hand Coordination

The topics of motor programming and movement production concern the mental and physical processes whereby people prepare and execute ocular, manual, vocal, and other types of action involving various response effector systems.

For More Information:

• Abrams, R. A., Meyer, D. E., & Kornblum, S. (1989). The speed and accuracy of saccadic eye movements: Characteristics of impulse variability in the oculomotor system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 529-543.
• Abrams, R. A., Meyer, D. E., & Kornblum, S. (1990). Eye-hand coordination: Oculomotor control in rapid aimed movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 248-267.
• Meyer, D. E., Abrams, R. A., Kornblum, S., Wright, C. E., & Smith, J. E. K. (1988). Optimality in human motor performance: Ideal control of rapid aimed movements. Psychological Review, 95, 340-370.
• Meyer, D. E., Smith, J. E. K., Kornblum, S., Abrams, R. A., & Wright, C. E. (1990). Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in aimed movements: Toward a theory of rapid voluntary action. In M. Jeannerod (Ed.), Attention and performance XIII. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Meyer, D. E., Smith, J. E. K., & Wright, C. E. (1982). Models for the speed and accuracy of aimed movements. Psychological Review, 89, 449-482.
• Walker, P. N., Meyer, D. E., & Smelcer, J. B. (1993). Spatial and temporal characteristics of rapid cursor-positioning movements with electromechanical mice in human-computer interaction. Human Factors, 35, 400-430.
• Wright, C. E., & Meyer, D. E. (1983). Sources of the linear speed-accuracy tradeoff in aimed movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35A, 279-296.

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