Simulation modifies prehension: Evidence for a conjoined representation of the graspable features of an object and the action of grasping it

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Frak, Victor ^a,b   Croteau, Isabelle ^b   Bourbonnais, Daniel ^b   Duval, Christian ^a   Duclos, Cyrill ^b   Cohen, Henri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

^c Quebec Memory and Motor Skills Disorders Research Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER GRIP; PRECISION GRIP; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HAND STRENGTH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55849108133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000311     Document Type: Article

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