Target Selection During Bimanual Reaching to Direct Cues Is Unaffected by the Perceptual Similarity of the Targets

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1107-1116

  Albert, Neil B ^a   Weigelt, Matthias ^b   Hazeltine, Eliot ^c   Ivry, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; motor skills; perceptual motor coordination; psychomotor performance; reaction time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 36049009366     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1107     Document Type: Article

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