ArticleExperimental brain research2007
The effect of distance on reaction time in aiming movements.
Article in Experimental brain research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Grasping the changes seen in older adults when reaching for objects of varied texture.PloS one · 2013Trial
- Effect of spatial training on space-number mapping: a situated cognition account.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Enhancing perceptual, attentional, and working memory demands through variable practice schedules: insights from high-density EEG multi-scale analyses.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Primary motor cortical activity during unimanual movements with increasing demand on precision.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Overlap of movement planning and movement execution reduces reaction time.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Effects of direction and index of difficulty on aiming movements after stroke.Behavioural neurology · 2014Article
- Too Good to be True? Ideomotor Theory from a Computational Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2012Article
- Article
- Selection of wrist posture in conditions of motor ambiguity.Experimental brain research · 2011Article
- Cortical correlates of fitts' law.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2011Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Target distance affects movement duration in aiming tasks but its effect on reaction time (RT) is poorly documented. RT is a function of both preparation and initiation. Experiment 1 pre-cued movement (allowing advanced preparation) and found no influence of distance on RT. Thus, target distance does not affect initiation time. Experiment 2 removed pre-cue information and found that preparing a movement of increased distance lengthens RT. Experiment 3 explored movements to targets of cued size at non-cued distances and found size altered peak speed and movement duration but RT was influenced by distance alone. Thus, amplitude influences preparation time (for reasons other than altered duration) but not initiation time. We hypothesise that the RT distance effect might be due to the increased number of possible trajectories associated with further targets: a hypothesis that can be tested in future experiments.
Indexed as
Identifiers
17639361What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.