Humans use continuous visual feedback from the hand to control both the direction and distance of pointing movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 458-473

  Saunders, Jeffrey A ^a   Knill, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand movements; Motor control; On line control; Sensorimeter; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; VELOCITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; FEEDBACK; HAND; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 18844364678     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2064-1     Document Type: Article

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