Fifty years later: A neurodynamic explanation of Fitts' law

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 649-654

  Beamish, Dan ^a   Bhatti, Shabana Ali ^b   MacKenzie, I Scott ^b   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Fitts' law; Motor control; Psychomotor delay

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER;

EID: 33750607722     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0123     Document Type: Article

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