Effects of response task on a reaction time and the detection of affordances

Motor Control

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-143

  Pepping, Gert Jan ^a   Li, François Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordances; Judgement; Perception; Reaching; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 22844442589     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.9.2.129     Document Type: Article

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