Bimanual coordination patterns are stabilized under monitoring-pressure. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The influence of monitoring-pressure on the performance of anti-phase and in-phase bimanual coordination was examined. The two bimanual patterns were produced under no-monitoring and monitoring-pressure conditions at self-paced frequencies. Anti-phase coordination was always less stable than in-phase coordination, with or without monitoring. When performed under monitoring-pressure, the coordination patterns were performed with less variability in relative phase for both patterns across a range of self-paced movement frequencies compared to performance without monitoring. Thus, while monitoring-pressure did induce a behavioral change, it consisted of performance stabilization rather than degradation, a finding inconsistent with explicit-monitoring theory. However, the findings are consistent with the theory of coordination dynamics and studies that have revealed increased stability for the system's intrinsic dynamics as a result of attentional focus and intentional control.

published proceedings

  • Exp Brain Res

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Buchanan, J. J., Park, I., Chen, J., Wright, D. L., & Mehta, R. K.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Buchanan, John J||Park, Inchon||Chen, Jing||Wright, David L||Mehta, Ranjana K

publication date

  • January 2017