INTERMITTENT VISUAL PICKUP AND GOAL DIRECTED MOVEMENT - A REVIEW

Locomotion and manual aiming studies suggest that a brief visual representation may be adequate to guide movement when continuous visual contact with the environment is prevented. Evidence is presented to suggest that this representation has many of the same characteristics as, what has traditionally been termed, iconic memory. The representation allows and individual to continuously control a movement, while picking up visual information intermittently. © 1990.