Table 1.
Summary of the experimental conditions, graded according to the demands of the specific stages of sensorimotor processing, i.e., cognitive, premotor, and motor processing
| Task | Sensory processes |
Cognitive processes Response selection | Premotor processes [Warning cue ←→ imperative stimulus] “priming the movement representations of the prepared response in foreperiod” | Motor processes |
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| Response generation | ||||||
| Timing | Stimulus processing load | Coordinate biomechanic movement properties: effector/degrees of freedom | Processing demand | |||
| 1FT | Intrinsic | No | No | No | 1/2 | Simple |
| 2FT | Intrinsic | No | No/yes | No | 2/2 | Complex |
| SRT | Extrinsic | Low | No | No | 1/1 | Simple |
| CRT | Extrinsic | Higher | Yes | Yes | 1/2 | Complex |