ABSTRACT
A fundamental ability for any mobile animal is visuomotor coordination, the dual ability to (1) convert continually transforming sensory information into a stable representation of natural events and (2) use sensory information to control actions. Since antiquity, people have had ample opportunities to observe the importance of visuomotor coordination. One example that has always been available is the fact that animals living in the wild depend upon visuomotor coordination to find food and to avoid becoming food for a predator. More recent examples include special events such as the Olympic games in which astonishing levels of visuomotor coordination are required to “win the gold” and everyday events such as perceptual errors causing tragedies on modern highways and skyways. Not surprisingly, then, the question of how space perception is dependent upon and altered by self-produced movements has a long history of investigation, a growing body of current research, and application-oriented efforts to use newly generated data (cf. Desmedt, 1983).
