Informational constraints in human precision aiming

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-145

  Bootsma, Reinoud J ^a   Boulard, Marion ^a   Fernandez, Laure ^a   Mottet, Denis ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Aiming; Fitts' law; Human; Trajectory formation; Visual information

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

EID: 0037159587     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01003-0     Document Type: Article

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