Postural hand synergies for tool use

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 10105-10115

  Santello, Marco ^a   Flanders, Martha ^a   Soechting, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingers; Grasping; Grip; Hand shape; Human; Kinematics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB;

EID: 0032400793     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-10105.1998     Document Type: Article

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