Object size effects on initial lifting forces under microgravity conditions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 422-428

  Kingma, Idsart ^a   Savelsbergh, Geert J P ^a   Tousaint, Huub M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human; Lifting forces; Microgravity; Size weight illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LIFTING EFFORT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; LEARNING; MALE; WEIGHT LIFTING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033000967     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050638     Document Type: Article

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