Matching object size by controlling finger span and hand shape

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-212

  Santello, Marco ^a   Soechting, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degrees of freedom; Finger span; Grasp; Hand; Principal components

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030726641     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229771060     Document Type: Article

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