Exam 6: Sensory Components of Motor Control

Although researchers have reported various findings, the most reasonable estimate of the amount of time required for visual feedback to enable a movement correction during the performance of a simple manual aiming task is:

The optic nerves from the two eyes meet near the base of the brain and form the optic ________.

If you want to rapidly move the cursor on your computer screen to an icon, when during the movement of the cursor would you shift your visual point of gaze to the icon?

According to the hypothesis that there are two visual systems for the control of movement, the visual system that processes visual information in peripheral vision is called the:

People who type on a keyboard when their fingertips are anesthetized have problems with movement ________ while typing.

In the experiment by Sivak and MacKenzie, when participants' peripheral vision was blocked, the grasping phase of a prehension action was disrupted.

When you walk across a street, the optical variable tau influences the initiation of your leg movement to step up onto the curb on the basis of the:

When you are walking on a pathway, central vision provides the information you need to stay on the pathway but peripheral vision provides no important information as you walk.

When you move your arm to reach and grasp a bottle of water that is in front of you on a table, which of the following parts of the movement would be affected if you did not have peripheral vision available?

The clear surface that is the most anterior part of the eye is the ________.

Peripheral vision helps people maintain their postural balance while walking by utilizing _______ patterns in the environment.

A sensory neuropathy involving a limb provides a non-surgical technique for the investigation of deafferented humans.

The neural aspects of vision begin in which part of the eye?

A person can use visual feedback to correct a movement only when there is a sufficient amount of time to make the correction.

________ perception is enhanced by the availability of binocular vision.

Monocular vision leads to better interception of a moving object than binocular vision.

The optical variable ________ has been shown to influence the control of time-to-contact in locomotor skills.

The greatest concentration of sensory receptors is in the fingertips.

When used to refer to vision, the term "perception-action coupling" refers to the coordination between visual perception and limb movement.

In the Lee and Aronson "moving room" experiment, in which the walls moved but the floor did not, which of the following describes what the children did?