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The Representation of Action Plans in Long Term MemoryA sequence of experiments conducted on a two hand chord typewriter, to compare the efficiency of different coding principles employed to associate letters with their chord productions is described. This keyboard represents an effort to identify effective alternatives to the existing typewriter. It consists of two seperate 5-key panels (one for each hand), and letters are entered by typing chords composed of one to five fingers. Each panel is capable of producing the full alphabet. One group of experiments was designed to separate between perceptual and motor factors in the acivation of single letter chords. The results underline the importance of perceptual factors in the activation of motor plans. The complexity of the patterns employed to represent letters was shown to account for 50 percent of variance in the typing speeds of single letters. The theoretical implications of these results are discussed in relation to a vision based theory of action plans.
Document ID
19850006236
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fussfeld, G. N.
(Technion - Israel Inst. of Tech. Haifa, Israel)
Koenig, W.
(Illinois Univ. Champaign, United States)
Karis, D.
(Illinois Univ. Champaign, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 1984
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Ames Research Center 20th Ann. Conf. on Manual Control, Vol. 2
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Accession Number
85N14545
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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