misreach

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ reach

Verb

misreach (third-person singular simple present misreaches, present participle misreaching, simple past and past participle misreached)

1. To reach inaccurately.
   • 2004, Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch, Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience, page 319:

     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.

   • 2008, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode, Sensory Guidance of Movement, page 316:

     Classically, patients with visuomotor apraxia misreach for objects in the visual field contralateral to the lesion (Rondot et al 1977).

   • 2012, J. Hyvärinen, The Parietal Cortex of Monkey and Man, page 161:

     Monkeys also show paucity of spontaneous movements in limbs contralateral to a lesion, misreach for targets and have difficulty in grasping.

Noun

misreach (countable and uncountable, plural misreaches)

1. The act of misreaching.
   • 1968, Daniel Porter Kimble, Learning, Remembering, and Forgetting - Volume 4, page 66:

     Now the subject's misreach cannot be corrected if you don't give him information about his hand position .

   • 1998, Jinhua Guan, The Effect of Aging on Adaptive Eye-hand Coordination, page 31:

     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.

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

     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.