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Jan M Hondzinski¹, Yongqin Cui

¹Department of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, 112 Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. jhondz1@lsu.edu

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Gaze direction significantly impacts whole body reaching accuracy in both light and dark conditions. Eye and head movements are coordinated with hand movements, suggesting gaze guides reach direction.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Biomechanics
Motor Control

Background:

Understanding sensorimotor control strategies for reaching movements is crucial for human motor performance.
The role of visual feedback and gaze control in executing reaching tasks, especially under altered lighting conditions, requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how gaze direction and lighting conditions influence whole body reaching control strategies.
To determine the predictive power of eye and head movements on hand errors during reaching tasks.

Main Methods:

Subjects performed whole body reaching movements to remembered targets in both light and dark conditions.
Gaze direction was manipulated to be either toward or eccentric to the target location.
Hand, eye, and head movements were recorded to analyze errors in lateral, vertical, and anterior-posterior (AP) directions.

Main Results:

Hand errors were affected by target height, lighting, and gaze eccentricity, with lower reaches in the dark being more accurate.
Eccentric gaze anchoring reduced AP hand errors but increased lateral errors.
Eye and gaze deviations significantly predicted final reach errors, accounting for 17-47% of the variance.

Conclusions:

Gaze direction serves as a common control signal for coordinating hand and body movements during reaching.
The control signal from gaze is primarily used for determining movement direction, not amplitude.
Altered body movements in the AP direction correlate with AP reach adjustments, while gaze alterations guide vertical and horizontal hand position.