Bimanual interference in rapid discrete movements is task specific and occurs at multiple levels of processing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1861-1868

  Obhi, Sukhvinder S ^a,b   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIMANUAL INTERFERENCE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ATTENTION; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23944436340     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00320.2005     Document Type: Article

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