The kinematics of eating with a spoon: Bringing the food to the mouth, or the mouth to the food?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-76

  Van der Kamp, John ^a   Steenbergen, Bert ^b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Innovation Centre   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human; Kinematics; Movement; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD; HAND MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIQUID; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; EATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032699159     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050937     Document Type: Article

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