Bimanual coupling during the specification of isometric forces

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 302-316

  Steglich, Christoph ^a   Heuer, Herbert ^b   Spijkers, Will ^a   Kleinsorge, Thomas ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Isometric forces; Programming; Transient coupling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032741721     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050900     Document Type: Article

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