Thursday, April 3, 2014: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center: 127
Research: N/A
Intended Audience: Post Secondary Instructor/Faculty
| Session Speaker: | Mark G. Fischman, Auburn University, Auburn, AL |
Interacting with objects is an important human endeavor. Given the virtually unlimited ways people can perform object manipulation tasks, how do they solve Bernstein’s (1967) “degrees of freedom” problem? My presentation addresses this issue from the perspective of the “end-state comfort” effect, a phenomenon that has been studied over the past 25 years. Research is presented from a variety of tasks across different subject characteristics, and implications for our understanding of motor planning are drawn.
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