A principle of error compensation studied within a task of force production by a redundant set of fingers

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-138

  Latash, Mark L ^a   Li, Zong Ming ^a   Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger; Human; Isometric; Redundancy; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ERROR; FINGER; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSATION;

EID: 0031710627     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050500     Document Type: Article

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