Manual asymmetries in the directional coding of reaching: Further evidence for hemispatial effects and right hemisphere dominance for movement planning

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 305-312

  Barthélémy, Sébastien ^a,b   Boulinguez, Philippe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b MSHS   (France)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetry; Human; Interhemispheric transfer; Reaching; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE HAND COORDINATION; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME;

EID: 0036431736     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1247-x     Document Type: Article

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