Effects of temporal and/or spatial instructions on the speed-accuracy trade-off of pointing movements in children

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-69

  Rival, Christina ^a   Olivier, Isabelle ^a   Ceyte, Hadrien ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Aiming movements; Childhood; Movement time; Reaction time; Speed accuracy trade off; Targets reach; Verbal instructions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TIME; VELOCITY; VERBALIZATION;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGING; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0037426709     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01246-6     Document Type: Article

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