Exploring the relationship between postural demands and manual asymmetries in pegboard performance

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 272-275

  Westwood, D A ^a   Bryden, P J ^a   Roy, E A ^a   Kalbfleisch, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SITTING; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK;

EID: 0033152127     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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