The uncontrolled manifold concept: Identifying control variables for a functional task

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-306

  Scholz, John P ^a   Schöner, Gregor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Coordination; Human; Motor control; Trajectory formation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COORDINATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HAND; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; JOINT CAVITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GRAVITATION; HAND; HEAD; HUMANS; JOINTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE;

EID: 0033006455     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050738     Document Type: Article

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