127 – The Legacy of Paul Fitts I: Fitts’ Law & the Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff

The first episode in a series looking at the contributions of Paul Fitts to our understanding of motor control and motor learning. What is Fitts’ Law? How can it be used to understand and predict speed-accuracy tradeoffs (e.g. between throwing hard and throwing accurately) in sports?

Articles:

The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement

Information capacity of discrete motor responses

The Accuracy of Interceptive Action in Time and Space

Throwing speed and accuracy in baseball and cricket players

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