ABSTRACT
The movement precuing technique is designed to reveal the major information-processing steps that lead up to the execution of voluntary movements. The main idea in the technique is to supply the subject with partial information about the defining characteristics of a motor response and then observe how long it takes the subject to perform the response when its corresponding reaction signal is presented. On the assumption that the time to perform the response includes the time to specify those parameters that were not precued in advance, times to perform the response in different precue conditions can be used to find out whether its defining parameter values are specified in a fixed or variable order, serially or in parallel, etc.
