Hand orientation is insufficiently compensated for in haptic spatial perception

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-414

  Kappers, Astrid M L ^a   Viergever, Roderik F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Frame of reference; Haptic spatial perception; Parallel

Indexed keywords

ALLOCENTRIC FRAME OF REFERENCE; ARTICLE; EGOCENTRIC FRAME OF REFERENCE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; ROTATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747132536     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0377-y     Document Type: Article

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