Rate Limits in Sensorimotor Synchronization With Auditory and Visual Sequences: The Synchronization Threshold and the Benefits and Costs of Interval Subdivision

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-370

  Repp, Bruno H ^a  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Rate limits; Subdivision; Synchronization; Tapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; RHYTHM; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0242609296     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222890309603156     Document Type: Article

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