Learning a throwing task is associated with differential changes in the use of motor abundance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-158

  Yang, J F ^a,b   Scholz, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coordination; Motor Control; Motor learning; Variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; JOINT STABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPORTS;

EID: 20944438698     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2149-x     Document Type: Article

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