From cognition to biomechanics and back: The end-state comfort effect and the middle-is-faster effect

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-85

  Rosenbaum, David A ^a   Van Heugten, Caroline M ^b   Caldwell, Graham E ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Handedness; Motor processes; Movement speed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030265890     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(95)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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