Acquisition of visuomanual skills and improvement of information processing capacities in 6- to 10-year-old children performing a 2D pointing task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Lambert, Julie ^a   Bard, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 13844256566     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.058     Document Type: Article

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