Fitts' law in human standing: The effect of scaling

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-133

  Danion, Frederic ^a   Duarte, Marcos ^b   Grosjean, Marc ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Balance; Center of pressure; Humans; Motor control; Posture; Scaling; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032760669     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00842-3     Document Type: Article

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