The dominant and nondominant arms are specialized for stabilizing different features of task performance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-570

  Wang, Jinsung ^a   Sainburg, Robert L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Handedness; Hemispheric lateralization; Human; Motor control; Movement representation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 34147168740     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0936-x     Document Type: Article

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