Approaches to analysis of handwriting as a task of coordinating a redundant motor system

Human Movement Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-171

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coordination; Finger; Handwriting; Redundancy; Synergy

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHILD; EYE HAND COORDINATION; EYE TRACKING; FINGER; FORCE; FORGERY; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037377619     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9457(02)00157-4     Document Type: Article

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