Relationship of the Pattern of Movements, Including Rhythm and Terminal Success

Abstract

Abstract Fifty-one subjects preformed two coincident timing tasks that required a horizontal arm movement and a whole body movement. An investigation of the progressive movement involved in the culmination of the motor acts revealed no identifiable aspects that were related to the success of the tasks. A method of determining an individual's rhythmic pattern, required by the task employed, was devised. Measures of the subjects' rhythmic progressions were also found to be unrelated to the success of a coincident timing task.