Between-limb asynchronies during bimanual coordination: Effects of manual dominance and attentional cueing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1203-1213

  Swinnen, Stephan P ^c   Jardin, Kris ^c   Meulenbroek, Ruud ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Attention; Bimanual coordination; Hand preference; Hemisphere specialization; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COORDINATION; DRAWING; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0004147926     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(96)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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