Humans trade off viewing time and movement duration to improve visuomotor accuracy in a fast reaching task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 6984-6994

  Battaglia, Peter W ^a   Schrater, Paul R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision; Motor control; Optimality; Timing; Vision; Visuomotor variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34347324113     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1309-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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