The visual search task provided a means to assess visual performance. We evaluated the success of visual search in terms of the speed and accuracy of target detection. This allowed us to assess relations between visual performance and postural sway. In addition, we sought to examine the reorganization of posture in response to on-line changes in the distance of visual targets (this was not addressed by Stoffregen et al., 1999). Accordingly, changes between near and far targets took place during experimental trials. Our study differed from that of Stoffregen et al. (1999) in that we did not include a condition in which participants ignored a nearby target while fixating a distant target. For this reason our data are not directly relevant to the issue of whether postural sway is influenced by the distance of objects, per se, as opposed to the distance of fixation