misreach

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To reach inaccurately.

   • When neurologically healthy individuals are first exposed to displacing prisms, they typically misreach in the direction of the visual displacement when pointing towards a visual target.
   • Classically, patients with visuomotor apraxia misreach for objects in the visual field contralateral to the lesion (Rondot et al 1977).
   • Monkeys also show paucity of spontaneous movements in limbs contralateral to a lesion, misreach for targets and have difficulty in grasping.
2. 2

   The act of misreaching.

   • Now the subject's misreach cannot be corrected if you don't give him information about his hand position .
   • The number of trials to criterion, the total distance of misreach, and the distance of the initial misreach after donning the prism goggles were measured.
   • The extent of a misreach could be determined from a scale located on the back of the apparatus, invisible to the subject, and the subject's accuracy was noted after each attempt.

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