Effect of motor planning on use of motor abundance

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-71

  de Freitas, Sandra Maria Sbeghen Ferreira ^a   Scholz, John Peter ^a   Stehman, Andrea Janelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm reaching movements; Double step paradigm; Motor abundance; Motor planning; Uncertainty; Uncontrolled manifold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; EQUIVALENT HAND POSITION; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MOTOR ABUNDANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE HAND POSITION;

ADULT; ARM; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HUMANS; JOINTS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 34047124145     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.037     Document Type: Article

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