Fitts' law, movement time and intelligence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-246

  Roberts, Richard D ^a  

^a Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Decision time; Fitts' law; Individual differences; Movement time; Psychomotor performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031206508     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00038-X     Document Type: Article

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