It takes some time to get into the rhythm (even if the rhythm is not extranally triggered) and some motor planning is needed as well in the beginning of a repetitive task.
An example. In a sprint of 100m the first steps are different to the following. But how many steps are needed to get into the rhythm (3,4,5)? In what way to they differ? Are they slower?
Do you have any suggestions from the literature?
Or suggestions on keywords?
I have been searching without success on "rythmic, repetitive tasks, reaction time, inter response interval, tapping".
I am especially interested in movements, where movement speed is as fast as possible (not externally triggered).
I appreciate any ideas.
Dear Stephan,
I found some papers which I believe can help you, However, I didn't know which group you have been working actually. In this case, I sent to you some studies which involving populations of different carachteristics.
I hope this helps,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00608.x/pdf
http://content.iospress.com/articles/work/wor00260
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.1253/pdf
Stephan,
There has been some work on walking with respect to distance or strides to reach steady state. This paper is about older adults, but it may help guide your search.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17383185
Eric
Maybe you should look at the literature on music and musicians. It might well be that Prof. Altenmüller from Hannover, Germany knows something about that.
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