Quantifying the contribution of arm postural tremor to the outcome of goal-directed pointing task by displacement measures

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-193

  Pellegrini, Barbara ^a   Faes, Luca ^a   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a   Schena, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Goal directed pointing; Human movement analysis; Motor control; Physiological tremor; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; TREMOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

EID: 5644253238     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.04.025     Document Type: Article

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