The Role of Oculomotor Information in the Learning of Sequential Aiming Movements

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 82-90

  Helsen, Werner F ^a   Tremblay, Luc ^b   Van Den Berg, Miek ^a   Elliott, Digby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye hand coordination; Manual aiming; Specificity of learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT SEQUENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VELOCITY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 1242314207     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.36.1.82-90     Document Type: Article

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