The influence of movement segment difficulty on movements with two-stroke sequence

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 137-146

  Rand, M K ^a   Alberts, J L ^a   Stelmach, G E ^a   Bloedel, J R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm aiming movements; Context dependency; Fitts' law; Human; Sequential action

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRUNK; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX;

EID: 0030911321     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005673     Document Type: Article

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