End-state comfort in bimanual object manipulation

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-148

  Weigelt, Matthias ^a,c   Kunde, Wilfried ^b   Prinz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; End state comfort effect; Motor planning; Prehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAND; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY);

HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MOVEMENT;

EID: 33746589803     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.2.143     Document Type: Article

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