Effects of movement direction upon kinematic characteristics of vertical arm pointing movements in man

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-106

  Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^a   Stapley, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Arm kinematics; Direction; Gravitational force; Human; Planning; Reaching; Velocity profile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; DECELERATION; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0032483423     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00604-1     Document Type: Article

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