Macintosh analogue of the rotary pursuit task |
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Authors: | Daniel B. Willingham Jeff Hollier Jane Joseph |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 22903-2477, Charlottesville, VA
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Abstract: | Pursuit tracking, a perceptual motor-skill task, has had wide application in many areas of psychology. The task is usually administered with a mechanical device in which subjects try to maintain a contact between a stylus and a disk on a rotating platter. A pursuit-tracking task that can be administered on a Macintosh computer is described. Subjects try to keep a crosshair cursor on top of a moving circular target. The cursor can be controlled by commonly used Macintosh ADB devices such as a joystick. The computer version has several important advantages: it offers more task flexibility and more accurate dependent measures of performance, and it is inexpensive. |
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