Intersession reliability and within-session stability of a novel perception-action coupling task

Connaboy, Christopher, Johnson, Caleb D., LaGoy, Alice D., Pepping, Gert-Jan, Simpson, Richard J., Deng, Zhigang, Ma, Luming, Bower, Joanne L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-391X, Eagle, Shawn R., Flanagan, Shawn D. and Alfano, Candice A. (2019) Intersession reliability and within-session stability of a novel perception-action coupling task. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 90 (2). pp. 77-83. ISSN 2375-6314

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The perception-action coupling task (PACT) was designed as a more ecologically valid measure of alertness/reaction times compared to currently used measures by aerospace researchers. The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability, within-subject variability, and systematic bias associated with the PACT.   METHODS: There were 16 subjects (men/women = 9/7; age = 27.8 +/- 3.6 yr) who completed 4 identical testing sessions. The PACT requires subjects to make judgements on whether a virtual ball could fit into an aperture. For each session, subjects completed nine cycles of the PACT, with each cycle lasting 5 min. Judgement accuracy and reaction time parameters were calculated for each cycle. Systematic bias was assessed with repeated-measures ANOVA, reliability with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), and within-subject variability with coefficients of variation (CVTE).   RESULTS: Initiation time (Mean = 0.1065 s) showed the largest systematic bias, requiring the elimination of three cycles to reduce bias, with all other variables requiring, at the most, one. All variables showed acceptable reliability (ICC > 0.70) and within-subject variability (CVTE <20%) with only one cycle after elimination of the first three cycles.   CONCLUSIONS: With a three-cycle familiarization period, the PACT was found to be reliable and stable.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	reaction time,response time,action boundary,perceptual-motor,test-retest reliability,reaction-time,affordances,performance,information,ability,motion
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2020 04:21
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73562
DOI:	10.3357/AMHP.5190.2019

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