Tapping speed asymmetry in drummers for single-hand tapping with a stick

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 265-272

  Fujii, Shinya ^a   Oda, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33751038781     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.103.1.265-272     Document Type: Article

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