Human Navigational Strategy for Intercepting an Erratically Moving Target in Chase and Escape Interactions.

Human Navigational Strategy for Intercepting an Erratically Moving Target in Chase and Escape Interactions. J Mot Behav. 2019 Dec 02;:1-11 Authors: Tsutsui K, Shinya M, Kudo K Abstract Pursuit and interception of moving targets are fundamental skills of many animal species. Although previous studies in human interception behaviors have proposed several navigational strategies for intercepting a moving target, it is still unknown which navigational strategy humans use in chase-and-escape interactions. In the present experimental study, by using two one-on-one tasks as seen in ball sports, we showed that human interception behaviors were statistically consistent with a time-optimal model. Our results provide the insight about the navigational strategy for intercepting a moving target in chase-and-escape interactions, which may be common across species. PMID: 31790635 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Motor Behavior - Category: Neurology Tags: J Mot Behav Source Type: research