Learning to write letters: Transfer in automated movements indicates modularity of motor programs in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 33-36

  Kharraz Tavakol, Oliver D ^a   Eggert, Thomas ^a   Mai, Norbert ^a   Straube, Andreas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatization; Learning; Motor program; Transfer; Writing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LETTER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRITING;

BIOMECHANICS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034678099     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00851-X     Document Type: Article

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