A comparison of intra- and inter-limb relative motion information in modelling a novel motor skill

Human Movement Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 753-766

  Breslin, Gavin ^a   Hodges, Nicola J ^b   Williams, A Mark ^c   Kremer, J ^a   Curran, W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Observational learning; Point light displays; Skill acquisition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BOWLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MODEL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

EID: 33751096712     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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