Location memory biases reveal the challenges of coordinating visual and kinesthetic reference frames

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-178

  Simmering, Vanessa R ^a   Peterson, Clayton ^b   Darling, Warren ^b   Spencer, John P ^a,b  

^a The University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate transformations; Memory; Proprioception; Reference frames; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36348941038     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1089-7     Document Type: Article

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