Planning "discrete" movements using a continuous system: Insights from a dynamic field theory of movement preparation

Motor Control

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 166-208

  Schutte, Anne R ^a   Spencer, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic systems; Human; Motor control; Motor planning; Reading; Timed initiation paradigm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PLANNING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; RESPONSE TIME; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THEORY VALIDATION; TIME;

EID: 34347214498     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.11.2.166     Document Type: Article

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