Origins and violations of the 2/3 power law in rhythmic three-dimensional arm movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 60-72

  Schaal, Stefan ^a,c   Sternad, Dagmar ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Human arm movements; Power law; Rhythmic coordination; Smoothness; Trajectory formation

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OSCILLATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0035098902     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000505     Document Type: Article

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