Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control
When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will become less detrimental to visuomotor performance over time. Delay adaptation has been shown for a variety of tasks and control modes, from sim...
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| author | Loes CJ van Dam Svenja Kernig Karina Lazarova Melisa Ünal Nicole Gappa Benjamin Straube Thomas SA Wallis |
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| description | When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will become less detrimental to visuomotor performance over time. Delay adaptation has been shown for a variety of tasks and control modes, from simple button presses causing a beep or flash to continuous target-tracking tasks. Here we investigated whether the delay adaptation is specific for the control mode used, when the task itself remained unaltered. To this end, participants performed a target tracking task in which they controlled a cursor item either by moving a stylus on a graphics tablet or by pressing the arrow keys on a keyboard. We found that delay adaptation occurred for both these types of control modes, but observed no transfer to the other control mode. This indicates that delay adaptation is specific to the control mode used during adaptation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bb8b42ca4eac480ab94c5812921064d22025-08-20T03:28:51ZengSAGE Publishingi-Perception2041-66952025-07-011610.1177/20416695251352067Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous controlLoes CJ van Dam0Svenja Kernig1Karina Lazarova2Melisa Ünal3Nicole Gappa4Benjamin Straube5Thomas SA Wallis6 Department of Psychology, , Colchester, UK Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Department of Human Sciences, Institute for Psychology/Centre for Cognitive Science, Darmstadt, Germany Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Department of Human Sciences, Institute for Psychology/Centre for Cognitive Science, Darmstadt, Germany Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Department of Human Sciences, Institute for Psychology/Centre for Cognitive Science, Darmstadt, Germany Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Department of Human Sciences, Institute for Psychology/Centre for Cognitive Science, Darmstadt, Germany Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, University of Marburg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Technical University of Darmstadt, Marburg, GermanyWhen interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will become less detrimental to visuomotor performance over time. Delay adaptation has been shown for a variety of tasks and control modes, from simple button presses causing a beep or flash to continuous target-tracking tasks. Here we investigated whether the delay adaptation is specific for the control mode used, when the task itself remained unaltered. To this end, participants performed a target tracking task in which they controlled a cursor item either by moving a stylus on a graphics tablet or by pressing the arrow keys on a keyboard. We found that delay adaptation occurred for both these types of control modes, but observed no transfer to the other control mode. This indicates that delay adaptation is specific to the control mode used during adaptation.https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695251352067 |
| spellingShingle | Loes CJ van Dam Svenja Kernig Karina Lazarova Melisa Ünal Nicole Gappa Benjamin Straube Thomas SA Wallis Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control i-Perception |
| title | Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| title_full | Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| title_fullStr | Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| title_short | Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| title_sort | delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695251352067 |
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