Can the relationship between tangential velocity and radius of curvature explain motor constancy?

Human Movement Science

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 799-811

  Phillips, James G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

1 3 Power law; Curvature; Joints; Motor constancy; Tangential velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SHOULDER; WRIST;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REACTION TIME; SHOULDER JOINT; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 54049128804     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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