Determining movement onsets from temporal series.

With the advent of recent measurement techniques, kinematic and kinetic measures commonly are used to describe events over time. Often, the central and peripheral nature of the control processes involved are derived from these temporal series. For example, movement onset often arbitrarily defines the end of the central and the beginning of the peripheral processes. Because of its critical temporal location, we examined whether response dynamics (average movement velocity) affects the determination of movement onset. Interactive graphics and numerical methods of determining movement onsets from temporal series were evaluated on various kinematic signals. Variations in the initial rate of change in a given signal significantly affected the determination of movement onset. Consequently, measurements of component latency must be regarded with caution. A cursory description of related problems elucidated in previous research is discussed, and procedures that can minimize these artifacts are suggested.

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