Hand orientation for grasping depends on the direction of the reaching movement

Brain Research

Volumn 869, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 121-129

  Roby Brami, Agnès ^a,b   Bennis, Nezha ^a   Mokhtari, Mounir ^a,c   Baraduc, Pierre ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Serv Reeduc Neurol   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Hand orientation; Humans; Prehension; Reaching to grasp movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; POSTURE;

EID: 0034733998     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02378-7     Document Type: Article

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