Intercepting free falling objects: Better use Occam's razor than internalize Newton's law

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2982-2991

  Baurès, Robin ^a   Benguigui, Nicolas ^a   Amorim, Michel Ange ^a   Siegler, Isabelle Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Interceptive action; Internal model of gravity; Motor timing; Qualitative implicit physics knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GRAVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848837411     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.024     Document Type: Article

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