Planning for manual positioning: The end-state comfort effect for manual abduction-adduction

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-389

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Rosenbaum, David A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End state comfort effect; Hand movements; Motor planning; Pointing

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VOLITION; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 37249005909     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1106-x     Document Type: Article

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