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One of the most remarkable aspects of motor skill is the precision with which actions can be timed. In this chapter we will be concerned with the control of actions whose timing is dictated by how the organism is moving relative to the environment, as in locomotion, or by how an object is moving relative to the organism, as in catching or hitting something. We will refer to this as extrinsic timing. It requires predictive information about the relative motion of the organism and objects and surfaces in the environment, information that is often only available through vision. Time to contact (meaning, in general, time to nearest approach) is a particularly important predictor.
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Lee, D.N., Young, D.S. (1985). Visual Timing of Interceptive Action. In: Ingle, D.J., Jeannerod, M., Lee, D.N. (eds) Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision. NATO ASI Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5071-9_1
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