Hitting moving targets: Effects of target speed and dimensions on movement time

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-36

  Brouwer, Anne Marie ^a   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^b   Brenner, Eli ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aimed movement; Interception; Movement accuracy; Timing; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

HAND; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 23844521952     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2277-y     Document Type: Article

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