Visual angle is the critical variable mediating gain-related effects in manual control

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 742-750

  Vaillancourt, David E ^a   Haibach, Pamela S ^b   Newell, Karl M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBELLUM; DATA ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747873031     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0454-2     Document Type: Article

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