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Original Articles

Parallel Ocular and Manual Tracking Responses to a Continuously Moving Visual Target

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Pages 29-38 | Received 29 Dec 1981, Published online: 13 Aug 2013
 

Abstract

Continuous ocular and manual tracking of the same visual target moving horizontally in sinusoids at 0.75 Hz was measured by lag, RMS Error, and Gain. The best measures of accuracy of tracking, error and lag, were remarkably similar in the two systems and were affected similarly by presence of a background and changes in predictability of target movement. Details of within-system performance varied despite the over-all parallels. Gain was different in ocular and manual tracking and affected by different variables. The oculomotor adjustment of proportion of saccadic to pursuit movement was affected by the presence of the hand, even though this did not affect tracking accuracy. The over-all parallel of response adjustment suggests that a suprasystem decision-maker sets general response goals and each motor system adjusts output details to match these goals.

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