Effect of Hand Posture on the Temporal and Kinematic Properties of Pointing and Drawing Movements Executed by Healthy Subjects and by a Patient With Primary Writing Tremor

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 190-198

  Rotella, Diane L ^a   Darling, Warren G ^a   Rizzo, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drawing; Pointing; Posture; Primary writing tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

EID: 0032989455     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222899909600987     Document Type: Article

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