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This paper reports some experimental results on the coordination of finger and vocal responses with passing through a target position in multjjoint arm movement. In Experiment 1, we found that the difference in the timing of finger and vocal responses cannot be attributed entirely to efferent or representational effects. Instead, it appears to reflect the extent to which information about the internal stimuli generated by the arm movement are available to the centers controlling these different responses. That is, it is a compatibility effect. In Experiment 2, the case in which a finger response is made on the same side of the body as the moving arm was compared with the case in which it is made with the contralateral hand, which remains static. The interaction effect observed suggests that the path-ways subserving coordinated responses are informationally encapsulated, so that information about arm movement is not shared between the neural centers controlling different coordinated responses.
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Azuma, R., Haggard, P. Effects of response type on coordinated responses during arm movement. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 579–590 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205531
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