Exploring smoothness and discontinuities in human motor behaviour with Fourier analysis

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 99-116

  Harris, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arm reaching; Fitt's law; Fourier transform; Minimum jerk; Minimum variance; Saccade; Signal dependent noise; Smoothness; Speech articulation; Transients

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

HUMAN MOVEMENTS; MOTOR PLANTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0842346381     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2003.08.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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