Perceptions of effort and heaviness during fatigue and during the size-weight illusion

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-202

  Burgess, P R ^a   Jones, Larry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Effort; Fatigue; Force perception; Heaviness; Perceptual rescaling; Size weight illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUSION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WEIGHT; WEIGHT LIFTING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030670679     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229771051     Document Type: Article

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