Task demands affect manual asymmetries in pegboard performance

Laterality

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 364-377

  Bryden, P J ^a   Roy, E A ^a   Rohr, L E ^a   Egilo, S ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34250633137     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701356244     Document Type: Article

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