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The violation of Fitts’ Law: an examination of displacement biases and corrective submovements

Abstract

Fitts’ Law holds that, to maintain accuracy, movement times of aiming movements must change as a result of varying degrees of movement difficulty. Recent evidence has emerged that aiming to a target located last in an array of placeholders results in a shorter movement time than would be expected by the Fitts’ equation—a violation of Fitts’ Law. It has been suggested that the violation emerges because the performer adopts an optimized movement …

Authors

Roberts JW; Blinch J; Elliott D; Chua R; Lyons JL; Welsh TN

Journal

Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 234, No. 8, pp. 2151–2163

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

August 2016

DOI

10.1007/s00221-016-4618-4

ISSN

0014-4819