Effects of displacement and trajectory length on the variability pattern of reaching movements

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 303-308

  Jaric, Slobodan ^a,b   Ferreira, Sandra M S ^b   Tortoza, Charli ^b   Marconi, Nadia F ^b   Almeida, Gil L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Displacement; Error; Human; Reaching movements; Trajectory length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ERROR; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032716868     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222899909600996     Document Type: Article

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