Short-term memory for reaching to visual targets: Psychophysical evidence for body-centered reference frames

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8423-8435

  McIntyre, J ^a,b   Stratta, F ^a   Lacquaniti, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constant error; Local distortion; Reaching; Reference frames; Sensorimotor transformations; Short term memory; Variable error

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ERROR; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0032531810     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-20-08423.1998     Document Type: Article

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