Our ESR Danial Borooghani and his supervisors recently published two manuscripts on lateral manual interception.
In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychology (click here to access it), the authors deployed a procedure enhancing the uncertainty about the target’s future arrival locations with respect to the hand’s initial position and included low-to-high target motion speeds. Their results showed that the information used in lateral manual interception is of an intermediate order, which can be conceived as resulting from a partial combination of target position and velocity information or information in the form of a fractional order derivative.
In their second paper in Motor control (click here to access it), the team from AMU and UMCG developed a dynamics-based model of discrete movement for lateral manual interception capable of generating movements with realistic kinematics.
Congratulations to the team!