ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the tracking of single, highly predictable sine waves. Researchers believe that the aforementioned strategy or some similar strategy is used for low frequency sine waves. Given that the sum of a large number of sine waves is used in Fourier analysis to approximate human tracking of random signals, an additional question might concern how well humans manually track single sine waves. Control strategy for performing sine wave tracking would be to generate a sinusoidal pattern and then adaptively adjust the amplitude, frequency, and phase based on observations of the input. Sometimes researchers identify the oscillatory dynamics in such mass–spring–damper models with the peripheral characteristics of a massive limb controlled by opposing, springy muscles and associated peripheral reflexes, the dynamic model can capture a combination of central and peripheral aspects of perceptual-motor coupling in a more holistic fashion.
