Manual and attentional asymmetries in goal-directed movements in adults with Down syndrome

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-154

  Kulatunga Moruzi, Chandani ^a   Elliott, Digby ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032951644     PISSN: 07365829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/apaq.16.2.138     Document Type: Article

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