Parallel direction and extent specification of planar reaching arm movements in humans

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 609-613

  Favilla, Marco ^a   De Cecco, Enrica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human; Motor control; Parallel processing; Reaching movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TIME;

EID: 0029975327     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00135-2     Document Type: Article

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