A century later: Woodworth's (1899) two-component model of goal-directed aiming.

Digby Elliott, Werner F Helsen, Romeo Chua·2001·Psychological Bulletin
DOI 10.1037//0033-2909.127.3.342

Abstract

In 1899, R. S. Woodworth published a seminal monograph, "The Accuracy of Voluntary Movement." As well as making a number of important empirical contributions, Woodworth presented a model of speed-accuracy relations in the control of upper limb movements. The model has come to be known as the two-component model because the control of speeded limb movements was hypothesized to entail both a central and a feedback-based component. Woodworth's (1899) ideas about the control of rapid aiming movements are evaluated in the context of current empirical and theoretical contributions.

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