References

Motor-output variability; a theory for the accuracy of rapid motor acts

Richard A. Schmidt, Howard Zelaznik, Brian Hawkins, James S. Frank, & John T. Quinn Jr. (1979)

Psychological Review, 86(5), 415-451.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.86.5.415

Abstract. Schmidt et al.'s impulse-variability theory — proposing Fitts- like behaviour for ballistic movements emerges from motor-noise-proportional-to-velocity rather than information- theoretic channel capacity. The reference cited when biomechanical accounts of Fitts's law are at stake.

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