Acquisition of a multi-articular kicking task: Jerk analysis demonstrates movements do not become smoother with learning

Human Movement Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 677-701

  Young, Raymond P ^a,b   Marteniuk, Ronald G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Simon Fraser University ^*  (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Jerk; Kicking; Learning; Multi joint movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031539427     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9457(97)00010-9     Document Type: Article

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