Finger coordination during discrete and oscillatory force production tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 419-432

  Latash, Mark L ^a,b,c,d   Scholz, John F ^a,b,c,d   Danion, Frederic ^a,b,c,d   Schöner, Gregor ^a,b,c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finger; Human; Redundancy; Synergy; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036392313     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1196-4     Document Type: Article

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