Attention as a mediating variable in the dynamics of bimanual coordination

Human Movement Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 877-897

  Wuyts, Irina J ^a,b   Summers, Jeffery J ^a   Carson, Richard G ^c   Byblow, Winston D ^a   Semjen, Andras ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Bimanual coordination; Dynamics; Manual asymmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030527232     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9457(96)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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