Motor planning: Effect of directional uncertainty with continuous spatial cues

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-126

  Pellizzer, Giuseppe ^a,b   Hedges, James H ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor preparation; Processing capacity; Reaching; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARM; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 1642578757     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1669-0     Document Type: Article

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