Reduced Attention and the Performance of “Automated” Movements

3 repetitive movements were studied. These were a blind movement between 2 stops, a visually guided movement to a line and a blind movement which had to be terminated at a previously learned position. Previous work had shown that the first of the three caused no interference with RT to a secondary signal presented during the movement, while the other two did interfere. Ss either performed the movement task alone, together with an attention...