Comments: you can use a screenshot from Wikimedia--I've pasted the link in. I'm not sure if the other pictures are very relevant.
Pursuit rotor task edit
A device used to study visual-motor tracking skills and hand-eye coordination by requiring the participant to follow a moving object with a cursor [1] or use a stylus to follow the target on a computer screen or a turntable.[2] With the computer screen version, the participant follows a dot on a circular path like the one shown below.[3]
The pursuit rotor task is a simple pure visual-motor tracking test that has consistent results within age groups. [4]. This displays a measurement of procedural memory as well as demonstrates the participant's fine-motor skills. The pursuit rotor task tests the fine-motor skills which are controlled by the motor cortex illustrated by the green section below.
[5] The results are then calculated by the participant's time-on and time-off the object. Amnesic participants show no impairment in this motor task when tested at later trials. It does however seem to be affected by lack of sleep and drug use.[6]
References edit
- ^ http://www.cognitiveatlas.org
- ^ http://149.142.158.188/phenowiki/wiki/index.php/Pursuit_Rotor_Task
- ^ http://peblblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/pursuit-rotor-task.html
- ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0191886981900258
- ^ Allen, J.S., Anderson, S.W., Castro-Caldas, A., Cavaco, S., Damasio, H. (2004). The scope of preserved procedural memory in amnesia. Brain Advance Access. 10.1093.
- ^ Dotto, L. (1996). Sleep Stages, Memory and Learning. Canadian Medical Association.154(8)