Visual Control of Manual Aiming Movements in 6- to 10-Year-Old Children and Adults

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-172

  Lhuisset, Léna ^a   Proteau, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aiming movements; Ballistic processes; Development; Movement control; Movement learning; Online control processes; Response planning processes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTERS; GOALS; HAND; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2342576892     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.36.2.161-172     Document Type: Article

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