The precision of proprioceptive position sense

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 367-377

  Van Beers, Robert J ^a   Sittig, Anne C ^a   Denier Van Der Gon, Jan J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hand position sense; Human; Joint angle; Proprioception; Visual localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031710918     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050525     Document Type: Article

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