The effect of caffeine on handwriting movements in skilled writers

Human Movement Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 523-535

  Tucha, Oliver ^a   Walitza, Susanne ^b   Mecklinger, Lara ^a   Stasik, Dorota ^a   Sontag, Thomas A ^a   Lange, Klaus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Handwriting; Kinematic analysis

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRIEDMAN TEST; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CAFFEINE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33749683147     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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