The acquisition of bimanual coordination is mediated by anisotropic coupling between the hands

Human Movement Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 699-721

  Summers, Jeffery J ^a   Davis, Aaron S ^b   Byblow, Winston D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bimanual; Coordination dynamics; Manual asymmetries; Multifrequency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SUPINE POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOREARM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PRONATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SUPINATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037799153     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9457(02)00151-3     Document Type: Article

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