Distractor objects affect fingers' angular distances but not fingers' shaping during grasping

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 194-205

  Ansuini, Caterina ^a   Tognin, Veronica ^a   Turella, Luca ^a   Castiello, Umberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; SENSOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FORM PERCEPTION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTOR SKILLS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33947308589     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0723-0     Document Type: Article

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