Task Goals and Change in Dynamical Degrees of Freedom with Motor Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 379-387

  Newell, Karl M ^a   Broderick, Michael P ^a,b   Deutsch, Katherine M ^a   Slifkin, Andrew B ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; GOALS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KINESTHESIS; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0041350326     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.2.379     Document Type: Article

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