Differential effect of task conditions on errors of direction and extent of reaching movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 469-478

  Messier, Julie ^a   Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplitude; Direction; Extent; Human; Reaching movements; Variable errors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030798073     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005716     Document Type: Article

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