Specification of movement amplitudes for the left and right hands: Evidence for transient parametric coupling from overlapping-task performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1091-1105

  Spijkers, Will ^a   Steglich, Christoph ^a   Heuer, Herbert ^b   Kleinsorge, Thomas ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034197969     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.3.1091     Document Type: Article

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