Extending Fitts' Law to manual obstacle avoidance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 775-779

  Jax, Steven A ^a,b   Rosenbaum, David A ^c   Vaughan, Jonathan ^d  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitts' Law; Motor control; Movement time; Obstacle; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250872849     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0996-y     Document Type: Article

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