misreach meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

misreach

verb

Etymology From mis- + reach.

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.2004, Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch, Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience, page 319:
Classically, patients with visuomotor apraxia misreach for objects in the visual field contralateral to the lesion (Rondot et al 1977).2008, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode, Sensory Guidance of Movement, page 316:

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Monkeys also show paucity of spontaneous movements in limbs contralateral to a lesion, misreach for targets and have difficulty in grasping.2012, J. Hyvärinen, The Parietal Cortex of Monkey and Man, page 161:

noun

Etymology From mis- + reach.

The act of misreaching.

Now the subject's misreach cannot be corrected if you don't give him information about his hand position .1968, Daniel Porter Kimble, Learning, Remembering, and Forgetting - Volume 4, page 66:
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.1998, Jinhua Guan, The Effect of Aging on Adaptive Eye-hand Coordination, page 31:

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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.2012, George E. Stelmach, Volker Hömberg, Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly, page 61:

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