Moving to directly cued locations abolishes spatial interference during bimanual actions

Psychological Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 493-498

  Diedrichsen, Jörn ^a   Hazeltine, Eliot ^b   Kennerley, Steven ^a   Ivry, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SYMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIS; LATERALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0035512457     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00391     Document Type: Article

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