Effects of a tilted visual background on human sensory-motor coordination

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 507-512

  Bock, Otmar ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Physiologisches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravity; Motor control; Proprioception; Rod and frame illusion; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030851296     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005720     Document Type: Article

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