Is hefting to perceive the affordance for throwing a smart perceptual mechanism?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 929-943

  Zhu, Qin ^a   Bingham, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afffordances; Dynamics; Haptic perception; Perceptual learning; Smart mechanism

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

APTITUDE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149132650     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.929     Document Type: Article

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